Jurek Becker Quotes

#1. Every person you meet in your life is your destiny. We alter the course of every life we touch, whether we realize it or not.

Dannika Dark

#2. God #1 is the Single-cell Intelligence, the collaborative brain that knows how to run a simple protozoan. The First God is the one-celled God. The First and original craft of God is Protozoan.

Timothy Leary

#3. At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

Simon Rich

#4. When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.

T. S. Eliot

#5. "True expertise is the most potent form of authority."

Victoria Bond

#6. You can't be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with

Nicole Williams

#7. All the doors we have not knocked mean many perils we have avoided or many opportunities we have missed, but we shall never know!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.

Jeff Buckley

#9. The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#10. Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.

Marcus Aurelius

#11. Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

Abraham Cowley