Meyrink Quotes

#1. The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

Tamara Mellon

#2. It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.

Gustav Meyrink

#3. What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

Asia Argento

#4. Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

Jared Spool

#5. The world's leaders should be forced to take a reader's license. Only when they have read five thousand - no, make that ten thousand - books will they be anywhere near qualified to understand humans and how they behave.

Nina George

#6. God never measures the mind ... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

Corrie Ten Boom

#7. To be awake is everything.

Gustave Meyrink

#8. Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

Gustave Meyrink

#9. The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.

Gustave Meyrink

#10. Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

Christopher Morley

#11. 'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

Dave Grohl

#12. There was a silence. The evening darkened in the room. Noiselessly and with silver feet the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours faded wearily out of things.

Oscar Wilde

#13. I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Orson Scott Card

#14. The longing for wisdom itself is wisdom' - 'search for a fixed point within yourself, my child, that the world cannot reach' - regard everything that happens as a lifeless painting and do not let yourself be touched by it,

Gustav Meyrink

#15. This goal can and must be attained in this life. But even if this does not happen, remember that he who has found the way once, always returns to this world with an internal maturity that enables him to continue his work.

Gustave Meyrink

#16. Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

Gustave Meyrink

#17. A brief rustling that broke off short, as if startled at itself, then deadly silence, that agonising, watchful hush, fraught with its own betrayal, that stretched each minute to an excruciating eternity.

Gustav Meyrink

#18. I may even seem to have violated the very influential contemporary distinction between "the context of discovery" and "the context of justification." Can

Thomas S. Kuhn

#19. She did not like her name. It was a mean, small name, with a kind of facetious twist, she thought, about its end like the upward curve of a pug dog's tail.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#20. Nothing essential happens through death, only through birth and that is the whole trouble - But shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?

Gustav Meyrink

#21. I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a 'waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.

Gustav Meyrink

#22. I'd be worried about myself as a human if I hadn't been nervous.

Allison Williams

#23. When it rains out, it also rains in.

Don DeLillo

#24. He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.

Ambrose