Franz Kafka Quotes
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?Franz Kafka
Quotes to Explore
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams -
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
Damien Hirst -
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi -
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
Barry Commoner -
Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
Carine Roitfeld -
Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
Naomi Campbell
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
Camille Claudel -
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul -
People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
Taylor Swift -
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Wassily Kandinsky -
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
P. J. O'Rourke -
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
Ice Cube -
My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.
E. G. Marshall -
When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
Yehuda Berg -
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
Ferran Adria -
We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
Quavo Migos
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The majority of advertising agency creatives are creative people, but we've disciplined ourselves to think within traditional formats. I want to change that.
David Droga -
Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.
Cathy Guisewite -
I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.
Omari Hardwick -
If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.
William Golding -
“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”
Colin Bateman -
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
Franz Kafka