Tillmann Schmalkalden Quotes & Sayings

Melville, in his relation to belief, was like the last guest who cannot leave the party; he was always returning to see if he had left his had and gloves. — James Wood

Patrick's handsome face descended toward mine. He stopped when he was just a whisper away. "You have a beautiful mouth."
God, he was magnificent. Such harsh, sensual beauty. The luck of genetics and vampirism and gym time? Who knew?
He watched me watching him and I knew he was probably in my head, listening in on my thoughts, my confusion. He grinned, just a little, and I knew that rotten, ugly, fat troll was reading my mind.
He laughed, unrepentant, and his breath plumed my lips. How the hell did he do that? How could he pretend to breathe? Or better yet, why did he pretend to breathe? — Michele Bardsley

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say ... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something. — Mark Rylance

Before there was a question, there was an answer. Before there was an answer, there was an experience. Before there was experience, there was God. — Jerrel C. Thomas

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State. — Simone Weil

I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to be a monster to survive in New York City. New York City doesn't give a damn about violence. — Bernhard Goetz

At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving. — Lee Daniels

When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to. — Zoe Kravitz

Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of
hell. — Andrew Murray

And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't. — Ellen Hopkins

I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that. — Karen Joy Fowler

It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to show that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning is heating the atmosphere. It is all a fiction. — Tom Segalstad