Langfeldt Overhead Quotes

#1. I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

Kate Zambreno

#2. Let us constantly bear in mind the rules and principles of Christian warfare; namely, that we conquer by yielding, we receive by giving, we overcome by being defeated, and we live by dying. There is no other way except the way of the Cross.

George Warnock

#3. Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

Alice Hoffman

#4. Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#5. I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

Nick Hornby

#6. A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.

Sally Potter

#7. I've said many times in the past that my career's not going to go on much longer; I'm not going to keep going and riding until I'm in my 30s and things like this.

Casey Stoner

#8. When she remembered the haughty style of his address, she dreamt of watching his eyes glaze over as she choked the life from his body;

Seth Grahame-Smith

#9. Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that working for you?

Herman Cain

#10. History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.

Joachim Peiper

#11. The smile on his lips was always the smile of the nice father, but in his eyes I could see the nasty one, the one invisible to everyone else, the one that lived inside his head.

Toni Maguire

#12. Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be "purchased" at someone else's expense.

Andrew Levkoff

#13. The main thing is: Don't take any shit.
That's the main thing.
The unmain thing is: You are not going to figure anything out except how to get other people to take shit, so forget about everything except not taking any yourself.

Padgett Powell

#14. The living world is a dream. The nocturnal dream is reality.

Rampo Edogawa

#15. The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.

Bayard Rustin