Knuppeldik Quotes

#1. Identity seems to be non-existent at a personal level - at best we can end up in a minority, and those who discuss it most are just those people who are aware of its absence in themselves.

Anthony Marais

#2. I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

Madonna Ciccone

#3. I've learned when you drink Absolut straight, it burns enough to give my chest hairs a perm.

Method Man

#4. The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.

Jonathan Raban

#5. A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

Jonathan Sacks

#6. There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

Selima Hill

#7. We've always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the road. I like to say we're the world's most famous opening act because we've opened for every huge band on the planet.

Robin Zander

#8. The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books,

Shirley Jackson

#9. Pain demands to be felt, he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction.

John Green

#10. I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

Dr. Seuss

#11. When I started out, it was this sense of, "Let's put out a record and see what happens and see where you go and see how you feel and where we can take it." That was a very different world back then.

Mary Chapin Carpenter