Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Gemeinverständlich, das heißt: auch den Gemeinen verständlich, und heißt überdies nicht selten: den Nicht Gemeinen ungenießbar.Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
P. C. Cast -
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
Nagarjuna -
My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
Pat Gillick -
I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
Edgar Mitchell -
Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
Daniel Barenboim
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I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it's getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who's active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack.
Damian Marley -
New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
Vera Wang -
What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.
Gary Oldman -
My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
Jack Henry Abbott -
If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.
Adam Cohen -
I'm a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
Ralph Fiennes -
As an actress, I value and rely on peaceful self-expression, not only in my daily life, but also in my professional work. This is particularly true, as my commitment to the promotion of human rights is an integral part of my calling as an artist.
Nazanin Boniadi -
Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.
Earl Blumenauer -
Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he’d stay stupid.
Orson Scott Card -
There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.
H. P. Lovecraft -
After the first proof of 'Sphere Spirals' my high expectations were, as always, greatly disappointed. I am now struggling on - with some feeling of despair - so that I at least achieve a passable result.
M. C. Escher
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I don't really want to talk about relationships because it lets people into stuff. I'm not on Facebook for that reason.
Jodie Whittaker -
Cleland was the victim of his own downfall.
Alan Parry -
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
J. G. Ballard -
I haven't got a writer's discipline.
Jim Broadbent -
Gemeinverständlich, das heißt: auch den Gemeinen verständlich, und heißt überdies nicht selten: den Nicht Gemeinen ungenießbar.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach