Augenblick Company Quotes

#1. There is, and can be, no cause of a historical event except the one cause of all causes. But

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

Shunryu Suzuki

#3. There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!"
or something to that effect.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#4. How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

Christian Bale

#5. Also in 1492, and also for the first time, the 'new Constantinople - Moscow' may have been given its more familiar label of 'the Third Rome'.

Norman Davies

#6. In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

Ike Turner

#7. The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it.

Daniel Pipes

#8. Look,' he said, 'they are just Germans who had Communism for forty years and went backwards, and all they want now is the money to have big TV sets and holidays in Majorca like everyone else. It was an experiment and it failed.

Anna Funder

#9. I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.

Damien Hirst

#10. You string people along long enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus

James Patterson

#11. There will be nothing you may not aspire to; you will go everywhere, and you will find out what the world is - an assemblage of fools and knaves.

Honore De Balzac

#12. Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

Anne Lamott