Umkehraufgaben Quotes & Sayings

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Comedy is the only profession where love from a stranger is better than love from a family member. You need to perform for strangers to see if you're really funny. If they laugh and cheer, it's the greatest thing in the world. — Jay Leno

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why. — Flora Lewis

The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste. — Moses Hadas

I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

There is an intemporal which works on the inside of time, which is, rather, omnitemporal. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

I don't like cartoons that take place in Nowhereville. I like cartoons where I know where they're happening. — Roz Chast

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. — Noam Chomsky

In troubled times the efforts of one extraordinary person can turn the tide — Sara Donovan

Happy Christmas" was their version of "Merry Christmas," and a better version, it seemed to him, for making merry was different from making happiness. — Michael D. O'Brien

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master. — William Cavendish

Essex was just a shadow in the room, the shadow of a thing I wanted, which was itself a shadow of wanting. But it was unspeakably sweet to feel even that, and terrifying to know how quickly it would pass. A moment inscribed on water, a memory that would fade to grey. I was nothing but a ghost hunter, chasing the wraith of the man I used to be. A beachcomber of my own detritus. — Alexis Hall