Siegfried Lenz Quotes

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

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• A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • American
  • Stand

• My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Look
  • Images
  • Material

• Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Problems
  • Stand

• We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Stand

• It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Learn

• Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Ideas
  • Actions
  • Conclusion

• I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Feet
  • Tradition
  • Stand

• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Moral

• If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Up
  • Today
  • Motivational

• When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Up
  • America
  • Help

• With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Party
  • Marriage
  • Moral

• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Love
  • Father
  • Girl

• Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Temptation
  • Stand
  • Liberal

• I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Trying
  • Feeling
  • Know

• The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • History
  • Stand
  • Medical

• I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Home

• As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Long
  • Heart

• I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Important
  • Baseball
  • Stand

• Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Together
  • Pretty

• For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Teach
  • Before

• When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Book
  • Feels
  • Needs

• There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Sweet

• I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

  

  Siegfried Lenz
  • Stand
  • Conclusion
  • Material