Gertrud von Le Fort Quotes
The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.Gertrud von Le Fort
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
Carlos Fuentes -
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
Sam Hunt -
I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
Paloma Faith -
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
Jack Reynor -
The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Samantha Morton -
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
Patricia Cornwell
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince -
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Wendell Berry -
There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
Larry Fitzgerald -
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
Ralph Bunche -
I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
Verne Troyer -
All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
Victoria Wood
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You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.'
Alexandre Dumas -
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Audre Lorde -
I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.
Chevy Chase -
We can take a 'It was hard to get there.' But we ain't taking no loss. We're going to win.
DJ Khaled -
I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.
Betty Hill -
I always come very motivated to the Grand Slams.
Garbine Muguruza
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It is important to remember that I am not in the G-8; I am just an invited guest.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -
on genders of nouns: Why refer to Lady Crack Pipe or Good Sir Dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied?
David Sedaris -
Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.
William Sloane Coffin -
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
Vikram Seth -
The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
Gertrud von Le Fort