Jesko Von Quotes

#1. Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Cornelia Funke

#2. It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

Napoleon Hill

#3. From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of Nature and a determination of the applicability of every species of knowledge to the improvement of his art.

John Gorrie

#4. Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.

Neil Peart

#5. Herman Cain has moved ahead of Mitt Romney. Can you believe that? Political analysts say this is because Americans don't understand Mormonism but they do understand pizza.

Conan O'Brien

#6. Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

Louis XIV

#7. A real man is one who can admit his true feelings.

Kathleen Brooks

#8. The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

Pat Conroy

#9. There is nothing like taking someone's breath away.

Erika Lance

#10. Heather resented it that this woman was his daughter. How does a writer of the most subtle, serious fiction end up with a daughter who watches Oprah? I'd be a better daughter for him than she is.

Brian Morton