Thomasiusstrasse Quotes & Sayings

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow. — Sophie Hannah

Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria. — Howard Zinn

If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him. — Margaret Deland

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book. — Ashwin Sanghi

God put this game last, and it's just like putting a cherry on top of your Sundae. — Jonas Jennings

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego — Albert Einstein

He yearned for privacy and for solitude. After my transportation to a so-called "rest camp," I had the rare fortune to find solitude for about five minutes at a time. — Viktor E. Frankl

We all naturally want to become successful ... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice. — Apolo Ohno

Charles Talent Manx the Third at your service, my dear! CEO of Christmasland Enterprises, director of Christmasland Entertainment, president of fun! Also His Eminence, the King Shit of Turd Hill, although it doesn't say that on my card. — Joe Hill

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. — Franz Kafka

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country. — James Forrestal

Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it. — Israel Meir Kagan

There's nothing I won't attempt. — Tracey Ullman

Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome ... Note how science changed those beliefs when new data became available. Religions stick to the same ancient beliefs regardless of the data. — Victor J. Stenger

He began to cry soundlessly. The tide had never gone out so far; he could see nothing but drying mudflats and those splintered pilings which cast their eternal damaged shadows. She — Stephen King