Tagesschau Mediathek Quotes & Sayings

A recognized fact which goes back to the earliest times is that every living organism is not the sum of a multitude of unitary processes, but is, by virtue of interrelationships and of higher and lower levels of control, an unbroken unity. When research, in the efforts of bringing understanding, as a rule examines isolated processes and studies them, these must of necessity be removed from their context. In general, viewed biologically, this experimental separation involves a sacrifice. In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order. — Walter Rudolf Hess

I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!" — Barry Hannah

[E]very comfort that the saints have in this world is an earnest penny to them of those eternal mercies that the Lord has provided for them. — Jeremiah Burroughs

There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until the time comes when you see things that are merely passable, and somehow think that they're good. — David Farland

The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing. — Seth Godin

This is how you know somebody loves you. When you can't tie your own shoes and they don't mind tying them for you. — Rose Christo

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel

One Almighty is more than all mighties — William Gurnall

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell. — Fernando Pessoa

He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head, and could turn his hand to anything when he chose to do it. — Charles Dickens

The crowd has a way of being right. — Louis Auchincloss

I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors. — Alan Arkin

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly. — Robert Hass

Come on, Eden, don't be naive. Demonic children are a dime a dozen in Netherworld. Need I mention Children of the Corn? Damien? Justine Bieber? — Michelle Rowen

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun. — Neal Stephenson