Hildegard Knef Quotes

#1. Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Hildegard Knef

#2. If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

Hildegard Knef

#3. The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one ...

Hildegard Knef

#4. We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

Peter Singer

#5. By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

Michael Bergin

#6. If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

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#7. For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

Mikhail Tal

#8. When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Lana Del Rey

#9. Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Hildegard Knef

#10. I believe that the only possible reason for our being here is to serve in some form or another but that the form is not always readily found or recognized. And I've noticed that those who refuse to serve often wind up as slaves.

Hildegard Knef

#11. Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

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#12. My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

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#13. We are never as beautiful as now. The crushing sadness of hotel rooms; the gelid lights and clean notepads; the blank walls and particles of someone else's erased life.

Aleksandar Hemon

#14. I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Sucking at something every once in a while is how you achieve greatness in the long run.

Tony Horton

#16. There was nothing like a little jealousy to make a man step up to the plate.

Melody Anne

#17. Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change ...

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#18. I thought I lost you"
"You will never lose me." Paul kissed the top of her head. "And even if I have to leave, you must know that I will come back to you again. If you'll wait for me?

Caroline Leech

#19. Swallow your poison, for you need it badly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. This is an old house. Among the oldest in the area, a white clapboard former farmhouse built in 1748. Fart on the porch and it rattles a floor board in the attic. -Dice (Swoon)

Nina Malkin

#21. The man corrected him. "Honor," he said firmly. "I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

Lois Lowry

#22. Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Khalil Gibran

#23. Big cows,"
thump
"lumps of meat"
thump
. His eyes widened. "Give me milk"
thump
"warm and sweet"
thump.

Julianne Donaldson

#24. An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.

Ayn Rand

#25. Lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Hildegard Knef