Hinterlassenschaft Quotes

#1. I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

Yann Martel

#2. At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

Ruth Gordon

#3. An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.

Ingrid

#4. When something in life goes wrong, yell, "Plot Twist!" and move on?

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#5. I hear you guys all the time talking about Daniel Bryan, trained by Shawn Michaels. One curious thing to me is, how come you guys never mention William Regal? William Regal did the real work with this young man. Shawn Michaels took $3,000 from him, that's all he ever did.

CM Punk

#6. I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#7. Four fifty-four for gas ... because we have nobody that calls up OPEC ... and say, [mobster voice] 'That. Price. Better. Get. Lower. And it better. Get. Lower. Fast.'

Donald Trump

#8. When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.

Blaise Pascal

#9. I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask my secretary or students. I am lucky, because I have people who do it for me.

Elie Wiesel

#10. Life ahead is full of endless opportunities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. If he is a coward, it isn't because he doesn't enjoy pain. It is because he refuses to act.

Veronica Roth