Erich Auerbach Quotes

#1. I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.

Norman Mailer

#2. It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (attributed to Matthew Henry)

Francis Chan

#3. Danny the whole idea of proving that people weren't rational felt a bit like proving that people didn't have fur. Obviously people were not rational, in any meaningful sense of that term.

Michael Lewis

#4. The Scripture stories do not, like Homer's, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us - they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

Erich Auerbach

#5. They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?

Jay Leno

#6. Like the voice of a number of homosexuals, this is an insinuating blend of eagerness and caution in which even such words as "hello" and "goodbye" seem not so much uttered as divulged.

Quentin Crisp

#7. She bit her lip, fighting a laugh. Something came over me. I gently pulled her lip free, running my thumb over it. I want your smiles. I want to hear your laugh. This is us, Mia. Just us. I don't want fake ... I want it all.

Belle Aurora

#8. Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

Gary Keller

#9. Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

William Butler Yeats

#10. I love how everyone thinks it's so quaint and childlike of me to expect a modicum of privacy around here.
-Remy "Thirteen" Hadley

House

#11. The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

Erich Auerbach

#12. Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Lewis Mumford

#13. Book Buzzed: When you stay up until midnight to finish a book, but then can't fall asleep until 1 a.m. because the story was so amazing.

Jennifer Bardsley

#14. He didn't blame James for falling in love with her, she was a radiant, deserving woman. He knew, however, that love only did one thing. It got in the way.

Erin M. Truesdale

#15. I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

Elizabeth Warren

#16. To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

Erich Auerbach

#17. He decided quite suddenly, having kept fairly good record on the calendar, that tomorrow was Christmas Eve, and zombies be damned. The Christmas lights were going up.

Joe R. Lansdale