Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Theorie und Praxis sind Eins wie Seele und Leib, und wie Seele und Leib liegen sie großenteils mit einander in Streit.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Try

• He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • House
  • Crime
  • White

• The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
  • Today
  • Stand
  • Left

• I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Songs

• Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sports
  • Involved
  • Activities

• To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Style
  • Yourself

• I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Work
  • Women
  • Done

• My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Choices
  • Judge

• Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Moment
  • Creation
  • Movement

• If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Job
  • Movie

• I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Tennis
  • Court
  • Only

• Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Want
  • Day
  • Forever

• I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Hat

• I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Funny
  • Desire

• I don't guess anybody would think much of what Joe did nowadays, including myself. But he was supposed to be a leader, so he had to live by the rules. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do, and it was to the greatest athlete I ever coached.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Live
  • Athlete

• Noli turbare circulos meos. or Noli tangere circulos meos.

  

  Archimedes

• Much learning shows how little mortals know;Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.

  

  Edward Young
  • Learning

• Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Soul

• Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Healthy
  • Observation
  • Scepticism

• I grew up in Middle America and in the suburbs...

  

  Anna Sui
  • Up
  • America

• Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

  

  Jim Henson
  • Time
  • Remember

• If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

  

  Kabir
  • Thinking
  • Alive
  • Rope

• Theorie und Praxis sind Eins wie Seele und Leib, und wie Seele und Leib liegen sie großenteils mit einander in Streit.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach