Hannah Arendt Quotes
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried with him and in which he tirelessly entered in the form of quotations what daily living and reading netted him in the way of "pearls" and "coral." On occasion he read from them aloud, showed them around like items from a choice and precious collection.
Hannah Arendt
Quotes to Explore
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles
I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
Parminder Nagra
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
Edmund Hillary
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.
Walter Gropius
Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
Naveen Andrews
If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
Yahya Jammeh
Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else
Sara Blakely
Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.
Eric Van Lustbader
I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.
[Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt,
Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]
Christoph Martin Wieland
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried with him and in which he tirelessly entered in the form of quotations what daily living and reading netted him in the way of "pearls" and "coral." On occasion he read from them aloud, showed them around like items from a choice and precious collection.
Hannah Arendt
