Transferwise German Quotes & Sayings

While still a student, Napoleon had written on the last page of his geography book: "St. Helena. Small island." This may have been what we call a coincidence, but the thought must certainly have aroused terror in him in his last days. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it. — Halldor Laxness

After I published a paper showing that suicidal poets used pronouns differently from non-suicidal poets, a slightly inebriated poet threatened me with a butter knife at a party in my own home. — James W. Pennebaker

You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman
a devil! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. — Dave Eggers

Don't go looking for boys in the dark
They will say pretty things then
leave you with scars.
Do go looking for boys in the park
For that is where the true gentlemen are. — Anna Godbersen

I hope I can become a good enough filmmaker where I can take a script that I'm not 'heart and soul' into, but I could still make something really great out of it. — Joe Carnahan

I have such disdain for anybody who gets joy out of blowing the stuffing out of a little woodland creature, that I don't really care if any of them gets shot. — Bill Maher

Commentary would come to life in 1945 amid widespread predictions that mass unemployment would resume as soon as war production ebbed. But it wouldn't take long after the war to see that the dire prophecies had failed. It became clear that Western democracy was far from finished; American power seemed limitless. — Benjamin Balint