Wereldstekker Quotes & Sayings

I like to mix the real and the imaginary. Sometimes it is characters inspired by real people I know or know of. Sometimes it is a named person from the common cultural dreamscape. And it is tricky, because they have a lot of associated ideas that come with them, and a lot of actual facts. — Dana Spiotta

For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie. — Kirsten Dunst

But it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light. — Donna Tartt

I've always surrounded myself with funny people. — Leslie Mann

One is always a good master when one isn't the master — Alfred De Vigny

Don't let anybody take your manhood. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The three drunkest cities in America: Fresno, Riverside, and whatever Mel Gibson is driving through. — Craig Ferguson

We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background. — David McCullough

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles. — J.R.R. Tolkien

We may succeed in preserving a modicum of rectitude in the performance of our public duty, but behind this facade lurk violent and sinful emotions, which are always threatening to erupt. — John R.W. Stott

Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for the sheer sensual pleasure of it. I liked that idea. It made me want to write lots of stories, to give myself that pleasure. — Vanessa Wu