Wibke Heymach Quotes & Sayings

Books have played a role in almost every one of the world's great civil and human rights movements, but only because people who read them decided to act. Reading brings with it responsibility. — Will Schwalbe

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation. — John Lydon

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever. — Maureen McCormick

There's a famous quote regarding Polanski. Perhaps Jack Nicholson said it, perhaps someone else, but it goes, "Polanski is the five-foot Pole I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole." So, yes, the world seems to despise him. I, however, love his work. It's so much funnier and well-constructed than the pompous stuff of Kubrick. Polanski balances between camp and horror in much the same way Billy Wilder did. — Chuck Palahniuk

And he would say, "Y'all come when you can," which was of no substantial pith or import, but then he would add, "Be particular." Except he pronounced it "p'ticklar." Be particular. That is, without a doubt, the Best Advice Ever Given in the History of the Entire World. — Jill Conner Browne

An ambitious effort to build the first handheld computer, the Newton, seemed to sputter even before the first version was released. — Max Chafkin

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting. — Sheryl Crow

human beings, each one of whom is a priceless, unique experiment of nature, are being shot to death in carloads.1 If — Hermann Hesse

Were they making the Kool-Aid in breathable form these days? — Sloane Crosley

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished. — Leslie Marmon Silko

Any man," she muttered, "who wanted to marry into the Hathaway family after this should be shut away in an institution."
"Marriage is an institution," he said. — Lisa Kleypas

I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family. — Kelly Reilly