Ditlevsen Quotes

#1. I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens.

Jim Jefferies

#2. Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

Tove Ditlevsen

#3. Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.

Tove Ditlevsen

#4. If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

Emanuel Ax

#5. Women are equal because they are not different any more.

Erich Fromm

#6. Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.

Tove Ditlevsen

#7. What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#8. If I used to ask myself, over a coffin: "What good did it do the occupant to be born?", I now put the same question about anyone alive.

Emil Cioran

#9. Attention, there was an incessant gnawing deep down inside my gut that

Rachel Renee Russell

#10. It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

Thomas Paine

#11. Fear isn't always bad. Sometimes it's the lighthouse on the shore telling you to steer out of the storm. Don't

Donna Augustine

#12. Let's hit the joke once and move on to the next joke and just keep it where we have as many jokes per square inch as possible.

Eric Andre

#13. Burning bridges is much easier than making them and bridges take you places!

Abhishek Ratna

#14. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#15. My childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

Tove Ditlevsen

#16. The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.

Robert Kiyosaki

#17. He gazed deeply into my eyes. Placing his hand to my cheek, he caressed my skin with his fingertips. "Ariel, you have a strength that cannot be hindered by anything. A strength that I admire greatly." - Luca

Victoria H. Smith

#18. [On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting ...

Tove Ditlevsen

#19. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

Thomas Paine

#20. I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot.

Tove Ditlevsen

#21. Confidence is when you stand over a shot and know you're going to make it because you've done it time and time again.

Jack Nicklaus

#22. My poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

Tove Ditlevsen