Irmgard Keun Quotes

#1. Avery was being punished. . . .

J.K. Rowling

#2. Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

Juan Gabriel

#3. I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.

Jack Kemp

#4. To save one life, Mr Tagomi had to take two. The logical, balanced mind cannot make sense of that

Philip K. Dick

#5. The chaos doesn't end, you kinda' just become the calm.

Nikki Rowe

#6. I think a lot of people try to plan things in their career. They feel like, If I don't get this done by the time I'm thirty, everything's over. But I've worked with a lot of people whose careers shot to the top later in life.

Alison Pill

#7. I used to think you could help people only with money. Actually, you can't really help anyone, but you can give them pleasure.

Irmgard Keun

#8. Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able to admit this would increase the respect, you know, which we have for British institutions.

Nelson Mandela

#9. They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds.

Irmgard Keun

#10. The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.

Edith Sitwell

#11. Follow your passion. Help people along the way. Work very very hard and always come prepared.

Rita Zahara

#12. The future is purchased by the present.

Samuel Johnson