Overy Quotes

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Jason Goodwin

#2. Somewhere in the far north of Canada there wuld be snow, falling soundlessly overy the Beaufort Sea, falling over the Artic without a soul to see it. What kind of weather was that, Samson wondered, and how was one to use this information except as proof that the world was too much to bear?

Nicole Krauss

#3. Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.

Richard Overy

#4. Where would a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. If there were no forest, he would make a forest. And if he wished to hide a dead leaf, he would make a dead forest.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

Richard Overy

#6. Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.

Chris Baty

#7. Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

Richard Overy

#8. There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.

Simon Cowell

#9. Once more you open the door And you're here in my heart, And my heart will go on and on. from My Heart Will Go On

Will Jennings

#10. When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

Yul Brynner

#11. Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

Richard Overy

#12. Many beliefs often create heavy fogs so that the believer can't see the realities! The only thing he needs is the cool winds of reason and logic!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.

Richard Overy

#14. Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

Richard Overy

#15. He stole a glance at her profile, the soft curve of her nose, the sharp angle of her chin, the glint of yellow gold against her dark earlobe.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#16. We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

Kanye West

#17. Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

Richard Overy