Germanness Quotes

#1. The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a local, perverted, nationalistic cult, by which a few major artists and many minor ones were honored for their Germanness, not their talent.

Christopher Isherwood

#2. They sell pot named after me in the dispensaries. And I'm not even a pot guy. I was so honored.

Charlie Sheen

#3. She has assisted at more than one Birth, has endur'd a hard-drinking and quarrelsome troop of Men-Folk, - who is this unfamily'd man in a Frock to call her child?

Thomas Pynchon

#4. I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned.

Jane Austen

#5. I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

Dalai Lama

#6. In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it's Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third play, it's crisis every day, an overlapping series of only just negotiable horrors. It's climbing and climbing. Then a sudden abrupt fall - within days.

Hilary Mantel

#7. Jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew.

Mario Balotelli

#8. But now you can't find me or reach me or hurt me ever again and once I tell the words I am going to kick you off my porch and learn to breathe again.

Ann Turner

#9. There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)

Mary Ellen Chase

#10. I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.

Carlos Santana

#11. When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Edie Brickell

#12. The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

Erik Erikson