Umarex Quotes & Sayings

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. — C.S. Lewis

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment. — Joe Scarborough

Our life, we realize, is not as happy as we have been taught to think. — Yiyun Li

The techno-political thriller and the romance novel serve as antidotes to the imagination rather than stimulants to it. For this reason they make for ideal reading in airports and airplanes. They effectively shut down the imagination by doing all its work for it. They leave the spirit or the soul - and ambiguity, for that matter - out of the equation. By shutting down the imagination, genre novels perform a useful service to the anxious air traveler by reducing his or her ability to speculate. For the most part, people on airplanes, and here I include myself, would rather not use their speculative imaginations at all; one consequence of this situation is that great poetry is virtually unreadable during turbulence, when the snack cart has been put away and the seat belts fastened. Enough anxiety is associated with air travel without Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus making it worse. — Charles Baxter

I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, So much the worse for the losers!
the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered! — Alphonse De Lamartine

It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The shortest horror story:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door. — Frederic Brown

It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality. — Richard Brautigan

Because you need me," he said, drawing in his breath as she squirmed against him. "Just as I need you." He crushed his mouth to hers. "I've needed you for years." Another kiss, this one deep and drugging, his tongue searching her intimately — Lisa Kleypas

Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt. — Charles Bukowski

Software architecture is the set of design decisions which, if made incorrectly, may cause your project to be cancelled. — Eoin Woods

For me my big dream that I would like to achieve is for each book to be better than the books that came before, to continue to improve and to become better as a writer and hopefully to have a long career . — Cassandra Clare

Your job is to point that rifle into the other guy's face and shoot him dead. — Matthew Ridgway