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

• 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

• 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

• I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Like
  • Doing
  • I Can

• I don't care what those schmucks think. I'm a millionaire.

  

  Uri Geller

• Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Freedom

• I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Time
  • Live
  • Relationship

• What a piece of garbage this smart car is. There's a commercial - the smart car has zero percent interest for six years. Well, good, I got zero percent in six years in buying this smart car. I'll tell you that much. I mean, it's ridiculous. My buddy has a smart car, totaled it. He hit a deer tick.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Car
  • Smart

• There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Discipline
  • Theater
  • Inventions

• You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Newspaper
  • Judgements

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

  

  Franz Kafka