Franz Kafka Quotes

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Franz Kafka

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• We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Believe
  • Thoughts
  • Feelings

• I believe that first impressions are very important.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Believe
  • Important

• I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Character
  • Enjoy
  • Guns

• It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Old
  • Award
  • Honoured

• That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Society

• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Important
  • Design

• It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Strong
  • Born

• I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Different
  • Science
  • Political

• What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Government

• All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Pictures
  • Framed

• The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Voice
  • Doing

• I have, indeed, lived most of my life overseas, but I've returned repeatedly to work in film, special television productions, and the New York theater. There have also been tributes and similar occasions that have called me back to Hollywood. I've returned so often, I almost feel that I've never left.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Work
  • New York

• I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Actor
  • Humility

• I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Friends
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Different
  • Live
  • Movie

• Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Everybody
  • Extent

• What space brings to you is that global perspective, that planetary perspective, that we're all in this together, and no matter where you're living on Earth, we're all part of this amazing journey.

  

  Dafydd Williams
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Space

• For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it.

  

  Ann B. Davis
  • People
  • Mind
  • Hate

• My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Wedding

• [Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• If I was a guy, based on how I performed in pilot training, I would have been able to have selected a fighter. I mean, I have always said unemotionally, if we want the best fighting force, why would we have 50 percent of our population not competing for these positions?

  

  Martha McSally
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Fighting

• If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

  

  Franz Kafka