Matuschka Briggs Quotes

#1. And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

Theodore Dreiser

#2. I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

Arsene Wenger

#3. Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

Haruki Murakami

#4. But the friendship of a despot is ever a dangerous honour.

Kakuzo Okakura

#5. Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

Omar Khayyam

#6. Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.

Dorotheus Of Gaza

#7. Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.

Anatoli Boukreev

#8. Its surface sheened with saft that evaporated out from its crystal shielding in threads that degraded to nothing.

China Mieville

#9. Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home

Pam Jenoff

#10. I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

Birdy

#11. The world's been turned upside down. The most decent people are being sent to concentration camps, prisons and lonely cells, while the lowest of the low rule over young and old, rich and poor.

Anne Frank

#12. ...I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity...

Jean-Paul Sartre

#13. All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

Daniel Defoe

#14. I try personally not to be nostalgic.

Daniel Clowes