Juliane Koepcke Quotes

#1. Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#2. The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.'

James Fenton

#3. I write everything out in longhand in one fast go. And then I throw out the first few and start over again. By the end of the first draft, the whole thing's messy and disgusting and horrible, but you really understand the foundational stuff.

Lauren Groff

#4. Empower people to achieve their calling

Sunday Adelaja

#5. There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#6. My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

Ettore Sottsass

#7. The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.

Uday Kotak

#8. I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle, one in Portland, and one in Salt Lake City. They started in 1925, and then they went out of business around 1958.

Terry Zwigoff

#9. It was amazing how often kind-looking people turned out to be crazy. He wondered gravely whether things had reached such bad state that only crazy people attempted commonplace acts of kindness, that the crazy and the kind were one and the same.

Don DeLillo

#10. Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.

Stacy Allison

#11. When we have really resolved to achieve something," my father once said, "we succeed. We only have to want it, Juliane.

Juliane Koepcke