Bauen Quotes

#1. Man soll bauen als wollt man ewig leben, und also leben als sollt man morgen sterben.
One should build as if one would live forever, and live as though one would die tomorrow.

Martin Luther

#2. So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

John Stuart Mill

#3. Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Aristotle.

#5. Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others ...

Alexandre Dumas

#6. That's how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Crochety friend. On the afternoon of the second day, she went out to do an

Louisa May Alcott

#8. If I remember correctly, pages 26, 42, 58, 77, 91, 103 and 118, basically all the places in the script where one of my people has a speaking part, he or she screams. No words, just screams. So you should at least get the screams right.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#9. And pity
people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you
that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.

Deb Caletti

#10. I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at the dinner table sometimes instead of food.

Michael Pollan

#11. What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely.

Tessa Dare

#12. I am a beau in nothing but my books.

Adam Smith

#13. Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.

Jeremy Roenick

#14. For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

Douglas Sirk

#15. A little
bunny or some kind of ferret was probably
there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.

John Ashbery