Guenter Wendt Quotes

#1. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

Alfred North Whitehead

#2. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world

Ann Patchett

#3. There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller

#5. I've always believed the best measure of a product's worth is customer acceptance in the marketplace.

Paul Otellini

#6. I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

A.R. Rahman

#7. I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#8. With girls house bristles with suspicion and frigidity; how much is paranoia transference? The damnable thing is that they can sense insecurity and meaness like animals smell blood.

Sylvia Plath

#9. For a long time, for years, I have carried in my mind the excruciating image of plants, bulbs, in a cellar, trying to grow without light, putting out white shoots that will inevitably wither.

May Sarton

#10. When you give, expect nothing from people and everything from Allah.

Omar Suleiman

#11. I don't shoot two films at the same time. I finish one character and get into another character because I change my look for every film. It's difficult, but I enjoy doing that.

Sonam Kapoor