Mittermeier Kabarettist Quotes

#1. Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.

Nora Ephron

#2. What's the matter with you, Madox? You got a grudge against the world?

Charles Williams

#3. When is the army getting here?" "Never," he said. "Well . . . One riot, one Ranger." "Sure. Unless you're the one Ranger.

Philipp Meyer

#4. I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground.

Alice McDermott

#5. It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.

Hermann Hesse

#6. That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section.

Chic Murray

#8. I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.

Thaddeus Stevens

#9. As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

Friedrich Schiller

#10. My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

Tamara Ecclestone