Telluric Acid Quotes & Sayings

45,000 sections of reinforced concrete - three tons each.
Nearly 300 watchtowers.
Over 250 dog runs.
Twenty bunkers.
Sixty five miles of anti-vehicle trenches - signal wire, barbed wire, beds of nails.
Over 11,000 armed guards.
A death strip of sand, well-raked to reveal footprints.
200 ordinary people shot dead following attempts to escape the communist regime.
96 miles of concrete wall.

Not your typical holiday destination.

JF Kennedy said the Berlin Wall was a better option than a war. In TDTL, the Anglo-German Bishop family from the pebbledashed English suburb of Oaking argue about this - among other - notions while driving to Cold War Berlin, through all the border checks, with a plan to visit both sides of it. — Joanna Campbell

You may very well be the death of me one day. But what a way to go. — Nicole Williams

As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today. — Paul Hoffman

No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical principle — Leo Tolstoy

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now i wish i could distinguish them. — John Le Carre

My old love, my new
Unlike wine, it's not better
Fresh blood is so sweet — Debby Feo

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it. — Charles Guggenheim

The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze. — John Updike

All of us have days in our lives, perhaps three or four at the most, when what we might call disparate events converge. — Dexter Palmer

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. — Elizabeth Warren

Here's a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first thought was always of sex. Don't get me wrong. I like sex ... a lot. But it's never going to replace cake. — Janet Evanovich

I love doing TV. It's such a breakneck pace, you know. It's kiss and go with your leading man. You meet them in the morning and go right into a clinch. The filming is over before you know their last names. — Paulette Goddard

A town loved with bitter love. — Anna Akhmatova