Boell Quotes

#1. I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns.

Heinrich Boll

#2. Dance better than you. Right. Because that's so easy." "No, it's not easy. It's hard, very hard. Something to strive for. Something to expire to." "I think you mean 'aspire,'" I said, although expire was probably more accurate.

Annabel Joseph

#3. You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Charles De Lint

#4. But I had seen, the night I met her, that her beauty was going to leave her like it does all women. For the face, time relays some essential message, and time is the message. It takes things away. But its passage, its damages, are all we have. Without it, there's nothing.

Rachel Kushner

#5. I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Fred Rogers

#6. It is unacceptable that the system we rely on to develop children into well-adjusted, learned, cultured adults allows drones to dominate and increasingly devalues freethinkers.

Alexandra Robbins

#7. Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.

Ira Glass

#8. We have little importance. Once we've assimilated that, life can have a meaning.

Laure Lacornette

#9. Cupid and Bacchus my saints are,
May drink and love still reign,
With wine I wash away my cares,
And then to cunt again.

John Wilmot

#10. I don't know if vocally I am so great.

Elena Roger

#11. The twitch of his smile grows. "So ... we're basically arguing over who gets to be more selfless in this marriage."
I smile too. "Basically.

Cassie Mae

#12. Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Plenty of other books say how to see as much of the city as possible," his boss had told him. "You should say how to see as little.")

Anne Tyler

#14. What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in fact been achieved?

Immanuel Wallerstein