Oliver Herford Quotes

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

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• I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Very
  • Early
  • Knew

• Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Character
  • City
  • Delhi

• I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Enough
  • Vampire
  • Hunger

• We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Moral
  • Choices
  • Exercise

• It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • Important
  • Pain

• I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • World
  • War
  • Period

• She wondered if she could put a dart in his eye. It would not kill him, but it might take the edge off his cockiness.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • She

• There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.

  

  Daniel Pauly
  • Free
  • Stop
  • Fishing

• When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Mind

• Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this. And I think, a lot of times, it's about being patient with your kids.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Pilot season after pilot season, I read the same part: the wife who rolls her eyes at her somewhat immature husband that she still loves. Literally.

  

  Beth Littleford
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Wife

• I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

  

  Mario Cantone
  • Rude

• Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Cool
  • Addiction

• Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

  

  James Reston
  • Adversity

• Venice is eternity itself.

  

  Joseph Brodsky

• The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Political

• If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will not do to think about going at it in a long roundabout way. One's heart may slacken, he may miss his chance, and by and large there will be no success. The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash in headlong.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Long
  • Heart
  • May

• The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself - not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an intelligent agent is a humdrum process that requires no new principles of logic or science. It comes simply from the hard work that biochemistry has done over the past forty years, combined with consideration of the way in which we reach conclusions of design every day.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Book
  • Design
  • Intelligent

• We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.

  

  Katherine Catmull
  • Never
  • Might
  • Walk

• I believe in eating smaller meals more often throughout the day to keep the metabolism going. Don't deprive yourself, just make better choices. At 50 years old it is definitely a lot harder to stay in shape then it was when I was in my 20's.

  

  Todd English
  • Choices
  • Eating
  • Harder

• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss