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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• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• 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

• I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• 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

• Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Horse
  • Grace
  • Will

• 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

• I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Time
  • Learning

• Motherhood is an especially powerful experience because it involves learning under high-stakes conditions, which is just the sort of learning that drives change in the brain.

  

  Katherine Ellison
  • Experience
  • Learning
  • Motherhood

• I like guts in my leaders.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Leaders

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

  

  Franz Kafka