Kluge Quotes

#1. When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

Alexander Kluge

#2. If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

Alexander Kluge

#3. Work isn't really work for me.

John Kluge

#4. Work isn't really work for me. I hate to tell you this, but I've never liked the weekend in my life. I was enthusiastic about Monday morning from the day I left college.

John Kluge

#5. Money is not a fund of knowledge.

John Kluge

#6. Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought ... about potential pitfalls.

Bobby Knight

#7. I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

Alexander Kluge

#8. The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

John Kluge

#9. The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word:
REDRUM

Stephen King

#10. The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.

Alexander Kluge

#11. My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

John Kluge

#12. So we have a commitment to the business and to its people.

John Kluge

#13. Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.

John Kluge

#14. Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

Alexander Kluge

#15. All the things you think are important - money, power, material possessions - none of them will make you happy. There's no correlation between wealth and happiness. Absolutely none. It's one of society's biggest lies.

Andrew Peterson

#16. Phantasy provides a kind of temporary glue, which keeps people from falling apart through the production of illusions which enable them somehow to live with themselves.

Alexander Kluge

#17. The piggies were not to be disturbed-

Orson Scott Card

#18. In some ways the goals of teaching and writing are the same. You hope to connect to someone else, to make them care about what you care about. So that the things which matter, the things that matter to you, matter to them.

P.F. Kluge

#19. If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Chanakya

#20. We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

Alexander Kluge

#21. Lesser the traffic of thoughts , easier the journey of life

Jagvir

#22. Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.

Paul Haggis

#23. I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

John Kluge

#24. You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

John Kluge

#25. Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

Anna Quindlen

#26. Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

John Kluge

#27. Should. I learned a long time ago to never close my mind to possibilities. Every time I did it made a fool of me.

Jana Deleon

#28. I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

John Kluge

#29. Assets are cold.

John Kluge

#30. The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

Robert Adams

#31. You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.

Alexander Kluge

#32. Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

Alexander Kluge

#33. I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.

Andrew Evans

#34. I tried to scream like you once screamed God since I wanted to make the whole world faint but Harry Astley clapped his hand over my mouth O the sheer joy of feeling my teeth sink in.

Alasdair Gray

#35. As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.

Alexander Kluge

#36. Don't think about waht other's think of you. Matter of fact don't think at all,just be you. Do what you feel. No one else matters.

Emma Michelle