W. G. Sebald Quotes
How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.W. G. Sebald
Quotes to Explore
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid -
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai -
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
Gary Busey -
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
Patrick Henry -
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
Adam Clarke -
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
Sam Hunt -
I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
Yves Saint Laurent -
My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
Xavier Samuel -
I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel Castro
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
Dallas Roberts -
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
Sally Quinn -
The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
Samantha Power -
Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
Latrell Sprewell -
I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
Hank Azaria
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
Irrfan Khan -
I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.
Marc Davis -
There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
Patrick Wilson -
Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.
Frank Lampard -
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
Jose Saramago -
How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
W. G. Sebald