Alexanderplatz Quotes

#1. At ground level Alexanderplatz is a monstrous expanse of grey concrete designed to make people feel small. It works.

Anna Funder

#2. When I was a kid, while touring East Berlin - back when there was an East Berlin - I got my left foot stuck in an escalator in Alexanderplatz. A few hours later, thanks to blowtorches and chainsaws and East German soldiers and the U.S. Embassy, my foot was released, and I along with it.

Kevin Bleyer

#3. Let your courage rise with danger.

Nelson Mandela

#4. Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader.

Janet Evanovich

#5. Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

Richard Stallman

#6. I kept pretending to sleep. This was hard, the trailing touch at my underwear felt good.
Hi fingers went into my hair at the back of my head. "Babe wake up."
Hmm.
I couldn't ignore him much longer, he would think I was dead.

Kristen Ashley

#7. An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else's delusion that his (Watt's) temporal lobe seizure has left him mute.

David Foster Wallace

#8. The greatest stories are simple, but well told.

Tova Dian Dean

#9. What's good for the financial industry probably isn't good for you.

Bethany McLean

#10. In essence, we are deeper than being; we are character, which contains the conscious forces of love, justice, kindness, faith, and forgiveness.

Garey Gordon

#11. This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms-folded them into its genes-and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

Edward O. Wilson