Magic Mountain Thomas Mann Quotes

#1. Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

Bernard Arnault

#2. I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

John Waters

#3. Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people ... Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#4. Please tell me he's not skipping.

Christopher Healy

#5. Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to forget ones self. But you do things in order to enrich yourselves.

Thomas Mann

#6. For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

Leigh Hunt

#7. I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!

L'Wren Scott

#8. If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

Sharon Olds