Bernie Gunther Quotes

#1. I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch.

Philip Kerr

#2. I have a family full of quirky people. Someone has to be sensible so all of you can enjoy being reckless weirdos.

Ilona Andrews

#3. It was nice to see a Human smile. So many things looked like smiles but weren't. Sometimes, to feel genuine kindness, I would stare into a mirror and smile at myself, just to remember what one looked like.

Cecil Castellucci

#4. When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

Philip Kerr

#5. Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

Nalo Hopkinson

#6. Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

Eric Hoffer

#7. Capital requires the separation of the worker from the means of production and subsistence

Peter Linebaugh

#8. Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.

Aphra Behn

#9. I'm not playing for the All-Star Game, I'm playing to win games.

Michael Redd

#10. In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

John Henrik Clarke

#11. Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

Russell Banks

#12. What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#13. One day we will all be a photo, a lifeless picture! But this thought is valid only for now, it may not be valid after now! All truths can change, all truths are valid only at this very moment we are in!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.

George Foreman

#15. The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.

Voltairine De Cleyre

#16. Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama.

Mimi Kennedy

#17. Looking round the room I found there were so many false eyelashes flapping at me that I was beginning to feel a draught.

Philip Kerr

#18. All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

Ethel Waters