Franz Kafka Quotes

All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.

Franz Kafka

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• Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • You
  • Speed

• When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Girl
  • Singing
  • Weird

• Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • May
  • Want
  • Question

• I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Sports
  • My Life

• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Doubt
  • Smoking
  • Statistics

• Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Group

• Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Stop
  • Fashion
  • Like

• Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Women
  • Children
  • Practice

• I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Never
  • Thought

• I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Good
  • Love

• There's a place in my heart for every team I played on.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Heart
  • Team
  • Place

• My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Development

• You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Women
  • Want
  • Space

• I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Simple
  • Football
  • Same

• I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Men
  • Long
  • Government

• As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Citizens
  • Paid
  • Puerto Rico

• My longing for truth was a single prayer.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Truth
  • Single
  • Prayer

• Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Survival

• You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too.

  

  Ellen Hollman
  • Comedy
  • Romantic
  • Scars

• Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

  

  Joe Biden

• It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit of man comes really to need another, he will be there.

  

  Bosie
  • Faith
  • Spirit
  • Poet

• All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.

  

  Franz Kafka