W. G. Sebald Quotes

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

W. G. Sebald

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Back
  • Watch
  • Top

• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • Song
  • Night

• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • May
  • Reality

• They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Show
  • Materials
  • Tease

• Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • World
  • Home
  • Weird

• I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Career
  • Try
  • Ahead

• I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Me
  • Going
  • Regardless

• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Morning

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Role

• I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

  

  Major Owens
  • Long
  • Business
  • Pressure

• All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Great
  • Together
  • Inspire

• The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Way
  • Swing
  • Bat

• Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Quite
  • Versatile
  • Brussels

• Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Love
  • Yourself
  • Neighbor

• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • Up
  • Success
  • Comedy

• I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Why
  • Words
  • Reading

• No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Alone
  • Private
  • Remain

• It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Reading
  • Alone
  • Thanks