Hoch Quotes

#1. I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.
[Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt,
Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]

Christoph Martin Wieland

#2. Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.

Kara Swisher

#3. And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him.

Jack Kerouac

#4. The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

J.G. Ballard

#5. One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

Robert Mankoff

#6. I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.

Robert Kennedy

#7. Exercise could be more soulfully performed by emphasizing fantasy and imagination. Usually we are told how much time to spend at a certain exercise, what heart rate to aim for, and which muscle to focus on for toning.

Thomas Moore

#8. I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

Hannah Hoch

#9. I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.

David Bergen

#10. What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there.

Andrea Camilleri

#11. Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

Marvin Minsky

#12. It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

Catherynne M Valente

#13. I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

Hannah Hoch

#14. Fandom grew first through individual correspondence. It was cheap and quick, continent-wide contact for a penny stamp.

Gregory Benford

#15. Bears. Of course you should be afraid of bears. Don't be a dumb shit.

Tim Hoch

#16. It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

Dani Shapiro

#17. I want to take care of you

Sylvain Reynard

#18. It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germany ... Most of our male colleagues continued for a long time to look upon us as charming and gifted amateurs, denying us implicitly any real professional status.

Hannah Hoch

#19. Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

Thom Mayne