Friedrich Von Logau Quotes

#1. What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.

Friedrich Von Logau

#2. I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective ... it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you've been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

Beyonce Knowles

#3. I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.

Sinead O'Connor

#4. If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#5. Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Jean Cocteau

#6. No, but I am working up to telling you that there is no possibility of there being done what ought to be done-

Robin McKinley

#7. Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Kevin Bacon

#8. For too long, the Democratic majority in Washington has failed to see the value in the sound model of working hard and living within your means.

Susan Brooks

#9. I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

Rineke Dijkstra

#10. I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#11. It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

Susan Howatch

#12. Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their return in the form of a completely satisfying presence. This, then, is the inextinguishable, uncreated reality.

Rene Char

#13. And for the glorious honor of being bitched at constantly and the esteemed title of Claims Investigator, he'd given up five years of his life as he went to college, created a debt his great-grandkids would curse him over, and got the holy honor of MBA. More Bullshit Allowed. (Zeke)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein;
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.

Friedrich Von Logau

#15. You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.

Anton Chekhov