Astrid Kirchherr Quotes

...When someone dies when you are young, you are naturally selfish, you over-cover it, you want to get over it quickly, get out and live. Talking about (Stuart) intensively has helped me. I felt relieved, after all these years. I had a big conscience for not mourning enough at the time."

Astrid Kirchherr

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• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Soldiers
  • Rebellion

• You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
  • End
  • Watch

• I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Without

• I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Rest

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Never
  • Pride
  • Away

• We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Information
  • Leaving
  • Accept

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Head
  • Fix
  • Quick

• Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Romance

• I do think that all of us think in poems.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Think
  • U.S.
  • Poems

• I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Community
  • Worry
  • Blessing

• I'll back up anything my dad says.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Back

• Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Possession
  • Understands

• There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Universe

• I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

  

  Bridget Moynahan
  • Life

• I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Television
  • Overrated
  • Les Moonves

• I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Comedies
  • Tragedies

• Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Live
  • May
  • Age

• Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• ...When someone dies when you are young, you are naturally selfish, you over-cover it, you want to get over it quickly, get out and live. Talking about (Stuart) intensively has helped me. I felt relieved, after all these years. I had a big conscience for not mourning enough at the time."

  

  Astrid Kirchherr
  • Live
  • Conscience
  • Mourning