Franz Kafka Quotes

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

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• I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Want
  • See
  • News

• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • True
  • Imagination

• In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Past
  • Season
  • Colleagues

• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Beginning
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Man

• The special thing about 'Lost Girl' is it can be campy at times, but the show doesn't take itself too seriously, which is what separates it from other sci-fi TV shows. I love that.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Lost

• Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

  

  Ira Glass
  • You
  • Words
  • Story

• I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Thought

• It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Women
  • Me
  • Angry

• I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it's what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Money
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Why
  • Always
  • Mistakes

• YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Problem
  • YouTube
  • Traffic

• The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Country

• Today war seems to have undergone a change of meaning, insofar as it is not a war of religion but a war of interests, not a war of conflicting cultures or civilizations but a war of national areas, not a war of human beings but a technical struggle of machines one against another and all against the non–combatant population.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • War
  • Today
  • Struggle

• Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Up
  • Time
  • Interesting

• In Barnette, we held that a public school student could not be compelled to recite the Pledge; we did not even hint that she could not be compelled to observe respectful silence. . . . Logically, that ought to be the next target for the Court's bulldozer.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • School
  • She
  • Silence

• You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• 'Tout de même,' said Poirot, 'since I cannot find anything, eh bien, then the logic falls out of the window.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Find
  • Logic
  • Poirot

• I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Destruction
  • Ahimsa

• Maybe in the world of BoJack, physical attraction is sort of different, beauty standards are different from our world because, why not? It's just more fun to have a sexy chameleon or a blue-tongued skink or whatever. I don't know how subversive that is, but it's fun for me.

  

  Lisa Hanawalt
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Reason
  • Stupid
  • Needed

• Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

  

  Franz Kafka