Quotes About Duino

#1. 'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.

Dinaw Mengestu

#2. Os-car." He tsked in mock disappointment. "This little girl kicked your ass?" ~ Kris

Sahara Roberts

#3. I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'

Sally Phillips

#4. Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.

Todd McFarlane

#5. ( ... )"Flapper" - the notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoked cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs, where she danced in a shockingly immodest fashion with a revolving cast of male suitors.

Joshua Zeitz

#6. People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?

Ric Ocasek

#7. I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.

Marcus Samuelsson

#8. She's sitting propped up on the

Tawni O'Dell

#9. He's the boy who stopped and I'm the girl he stopped for and what happens to her, if he goes away?

Courtney Summers

#10. The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.

Meg Cabot

#11. I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well.

Nina Sankovitch

#12. Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

Leah LaBelle

#13. We only pass everything by
like a transposition of air.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#14. The truth is that Leon, like a lot of those-maybe everyone-who trips on acid, never really came back. he recovered but he was never the same guy again. He had lost something-innocence of hell. Acid presses a little button in your mind that should never be pressed

Craig Ferguson

#15. Be content with nothing less than perfection.

Walter J. Phillips

#16. Think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling
was only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#17. Like the curved pipe of a fountain, your arching boughs
drive the sap
downward and up again: and almost without awakening
it bursts out of sleep, into its sweetest achievement.
Like the god stepping into the swan.

Rainer Maria Rilke