Goodbye To Berlin Quotes

#1. By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Georg Simmel

#2. All the poetry in the world is in that face.

Christopher Isherwood

#3. You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.

Damon Hill

#4. Perhaps ... I could not be content with mere contentment!

Angela Carter

#5. A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#6. The most elemental difference between the machine and the garden is that one is driven by a force which must be introduced from without, the other grown by an energy which originates from within itself.

Steven Pinker

#7. It was only a searing pain running from her coccyx that was giving her any trouble. She'd landed on her arse - which, thankfully, had enough padding on it to have saved her from anything more serious. Three cheers for fat-bottomed girls.

Debbie Johnson

#8. The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Richard Dawkins

#9. Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.

Lou Rawls

#10. I think New York style is unique because there's something resourceful about it. Utilitarian. Whereas in Los Angeles, I find people make their cars a day closet. Which, I guess, is resourceful in a different way.

Vincent Piazza

#11. In India: A Wounded Civilization, Naipaul writes that 'the Indian way of experiencing' means that 'the outer world matters only in so far as it affects the inner'.

Ian Jack

#12. I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.

Maria Thayer

#13. I'm so sorry," she said after a few minutes. "I'm so so so sorry. I'm going to buy you a car and make your bedroom bigger and all we'll ever eat is yogurt and ...

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. The song is ended, but the melody lingers on ...

Irving Berlin

#15. Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi's and goodbyes, acting polite at all times. But there is no fire in your heart; you are not very concerned.

Charlotte Eriksson

#16. Fathers need to be tough and tender ... you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.

Mark Driscoll

#17. Sit up straight." "Don't fidget." "Write a thank-you note the minute you receive a gift or return home from a party." "Always have fresh flowers, no matter the cost." "Clean gloves and shoes are the sign of a lady." "Never let the help get the upper hand." "Be discreet." "Be above gossip.

Melanie Benjamin