Franz Kafka Quotes

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Franz Kafka

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• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Fire

• We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Mystery
  • Busy

• I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Nature
  • Gods
  • Expressive

• I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Stop
  • Always

• Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Past
  • Action

• I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Want
  • Convince

• Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Social
  • Reform
  • Brings

• Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • School
  • Art
  • Success

• In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Long
  • Job
  • Stop

• So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Business
  • Girl
  • Woman

• In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Kind
  • Connection

• Adding a column of figures is a repetitive thought process, and it was long ago properly relegated to the machine. True, the machine is sometimes controlled by the keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Long
  • True
  • Reading

• A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Life
  • Different
  • Lazy

• To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Work

• I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Start
  • Step

• When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Think
  • Look

• You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Time
  • Stupid

• I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Different
  • Story

• A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

  

  Franz Kafka