Brod's Quotes

#1. Sofiowka was found the next morning, swinging by the neck from the wooden bridge. His severed hands were hanging from strings tied to his feet, and across his chest was written, in Brod's red lipstick, ANIMAL

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. Brod's life was a slow realisation that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. Other people may well not find it relevant that you have forgiven yourself, but you need to know that it is not for them anyway. Everything at the moment is wholly about you.

Stephen Richards

#4. Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

Paul Feig

#5. As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod:

"Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminated tanks. 'Now at least I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.' It was the time he turned strictly vegetarian.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. Future For cell mates For the gutter rats For those who are looked in on from the outside, and no one else will ever understand.

C.L.Stone

#7. Acknowledge the unexpected exchange of fellow feeling between

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

Grace Kelly

#9. My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.

Claire Denis

#10. I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

Martha Gellhorn

#11. Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

#12. Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.

John Bosco

#13. Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

Paul Stanley

#14. Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

Tea Leoni

#15. Brod was afraid any tears of her own would cause the walls of the old house to give way, so she sandbagged them behind her eyes, exiled them to someplace deeper, safer.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

Tim Harford

#17. Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.

Ellen DeGeneres

#18. The [National Socialist] Party ... is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.

Adolf Hitler

#19. Affections cannot be stolen, madam. They are given freely or not at all.

Rachel Field

#20. A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]

Franz Kafka

#21. There were variations on the truth, of course, but wasn't it always the hard one that worked the best?

D.C. Brod