Verlag Kopf Quotes & Sayings

You're never going to be the same person you are right now. — Robert Redford

And what enriched me while reading Adorno, for example, lay not in what I read but in the perception of myself while I was reading. I was someone who read Adorno! And in this heavy, intricate, detailed, precise language whose aim was to elevate thought ever higher, and where every period was set like a mountaineer's cleat, there was something else, this particular approach to the mood of reality, the shadow of these sentences that could evoke in me a vague desire to use the language with this particular mood on something real, on something living. Not on an argument, but on a lynx, for example, or on a blackbird or a cement mixer. — Karl Ove Knausgard

There is no point in imagining that if one had been there, one could have prevented a thing that had happened only because it had not been prevented — Alan Paton

Hell is the impossibility of reason. — Oliver Stone

Visitors at the zoo indulge in transports of delight at the way an elephant reaches for an apple with it's trunk....but give not a moments thought to the ineffable capabilities of their own hands. — John Russell Napier

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance. — Terry Teachout

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many. — Mark Twain

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course. - Voltaire — William Owens