Gretl Braun Quotes

#1. And then the critics, going back to the novels of his maturity, found that their English had a nervous, racy vigour that eminently suited the matter.

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. I say, you look smashing this evening," Zayne strode over to her, took her arm, and began helping her up the walk, "That is a lovely gown, and what is the color of the hair you're currently sporting?

Jen Turano

#3. My advice is this, do whatever pleases yourself. These things don't matter. What does matter is that if you have anything worth while in you, any talent, you should deliver it. Nothing must turn you from that.

Patrick Kavanagh

#4. If this was what Mikhail called opening the gate close to Zayvion's body, I was going to kill a compass and a slide rule and send them through the gates of death to him.

Devon Monk

#5. Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

Peter Carey

#6. I've been treating my life as this pit stop, just kind of regrouping before I move on. But it's been seven years, and I never moved on. I haven't done anything. I just ... stopped.

Jonathan Tropper

#7. You are like seven of the strangest women I have ever met.

Aaron Sorkin

#8. Science is most definitely not a priesthood where people stand on a mountain and pass truths down to the waiting minions below.

Brian Cox

#9. How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don't talk about their joys, their problems, and the destruction of the country in literary diction.

Hassan Blasim

#10. The world needs wisdom as it has never needed it before; and if knowledge continues to increase, the world will need wisdom in the future even more than it does now.

Bertrand Russell

#11. I always did feel beautiful when I was pregnant, but I do feel more me when I'm my normal size.

Heidi Klum

#12. Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#13. It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'

Patrick Whitesell

#14. He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#15. Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

Eric Alterman