Ziemlich Gut Quotes & Sayings

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound. — Nicholson Baker

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice. — Heather Graham

An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey. — Mel Brooks

I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God. — George Foreman

Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities. — Thomas De Quincey

Where there is love there is life; where there is life there is hope. — Allan Stratton

In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was "terrible," describe it so that we'll be terrified. Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, "Please will you do my job for me."
[Letter to Joan Lancaster, 26 June 1956] — C.S. Lewis

The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain. — David Hawkins

I've heard the expression climbing walls, but I never thought I'd experience it, let alone like that, she murmured, her mouth curling into what was probably a dreamy smile. — Jeaniene Frost

Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it — Charlotte Symonds

You cannot be loved by someone who doesn't want to know you. — Armistead Maupin