Top 100 Quotes About Hoffmann
#1. I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read aloud to us all. There weren't that many picture books around in the Fifties in Zimbabwe. My favourite was Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, which was really frightening.
Korky Paul
#2. In 1999, Hoffmann-LaRoche paid a $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices for certain vitamins.
Bernie Sanders
#3. I did a film many years ago called The Man Without A Face.Gaby [Hoffmann] was in with Mel Gibson. That was his directing debut. He did a great job.
Richard Masur
#4. Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.
Eva Braun
#5. Bulgakov always loved clowning and agreed with E. T. A. Hoffmann that irony and buffoonery are expressions of 'the deepest contemplation of life in all its conditionality
Mikhail Bulgakov
#6. If you look at the careers of Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Paul Giamatti, Meryl Streep, none of them shot up in terms of fame or fortune or recognition, they laid a platform of good, solid work and became better and better.
Max Irons
#7. Rightly understood the New Year festival is an act of faith. It is easier for the year to change than to change ourselves. But we believe that somehow, magically, one will lead to the other.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
#8. There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
Gaby Hoffmann
#9. He was, however, obliged to leave the university, because Nathaniel's story had created a sensation, and it was universally considered a quite unpardonable trick to smuggle a wooden doll into respectful tea parties in place of a living person.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#10. Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#11. A nanometer is so small, you would need to slice the width of a human hair one hundred thousand times to reach a nanometer.
Peter M. Hoffmann
#12. I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
Gaby Hoffmann
#13. It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#14. I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.
Gaby Hoffmann
#15. I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.
Gaby Hoffmann
#16. Perhaps, too, you will then believe that nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life, and that all that a writer can do is to present it as "in a glass, darkly".
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#17. Being with people who don't understand is worse than being alone with her grief.
Kerry Cohen Hoffmann
#18. I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
Gaby Hoffmann
#19. I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all ... I really couldn't even think about it.
Gaby Hoffmann
#20. She was not too tall, and of a voluptuous build, so that my eyes wandered amid many charms that hitherto had been strangers to them.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#21. To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.
Banesh Hoffmann
#22. Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#23. Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.
Stanley Hoffmann
#25. We have used so much polyethylene ( plastic ) since the invention of this oil derivative that plastic broken down has over time completely changed the molecular structure of seawater .
Norbert F Hoffmann Jr
#26. No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself.
Paul Hoffmann
#28. All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
Gaby Hoffmann
#29. Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race you thought to have planted for eternity?
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#30. Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.
Roald Hoffmann
#31. I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.
Gaby Hoffmann
#32. The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
Gaby Hoffmann
#33. It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#34. It was obvious from their expressions that they believed the wellbeing of R.'s inhabitants was endangered by my youth. The visit was very enjoyable, but the horror of the previous night still clung to me.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#35. So true it is, that even the shortest step out of the immediate circle of one's best friends, is equal, in effect, to the remotest separation.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#36. Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.
Stanley Hoffmann
#37. The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#38. Know, then," said he, "that I myself am the destiny - the demon, as thou sayest, by whom I am persecuted and destroyed, that my conscience is loaded with guilt, nay, with the stain of a shameful, infamous, and mortal crime,
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#39. No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.
Banesh Hoffmann
#40. I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
Gaby Hoffmann
#41. What we learn from the story of Adam and Eve is simple. What we can have is never what we want. And when we can have what we wanted we want something else. It's human nature in a single luminous story. Our sin. Our fall. Our problem.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
#42. I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
Gaby Hoffmann
#43. The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them.
E. Hoffmann Price
#44. Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.
Banesh Hoffmann
#45. It may be, after all," said the Student Anselmus to himself, "that the superfine stomachic liqueur, which I took somewhat freely in Monsieur Conradi's, might really be the cause of all these shocking phantasms, which tortured me so at Archivarius Lindhorst's door.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#46. I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
Gaby Hoffmann
#47. Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#48. From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star ... is boring - there are no molecules there.
Roald Hoffmann
#49. As soon as a still-to-be-finished computer task becomes a life-or-death situation the power fails.
Andre Hoffmann
#50. The greatest sin in the world is to say 'I love you' without realising that God snd his angels are listening and judging. If you do not feel their presence you are not in love. You have no right to be in love.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
#51. The attraction of New Year is this: the year changes and in that change we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult however to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page. We are creatures of faith, like it or not.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
#52. There are dread secrets that none may know and have peace. More, secrets that render whosoever knoweth them an alien unto the tribe he belongs to, that cause him to walk alone on earth, for he who takes, pays.
E. Hoffmann Price
#53. I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.
Roald Hoffmann
#54. It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
#55. I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.
Roald Hoffmann
#56. [E]ven in gay, easygoing, and carefree minds there may exist a presentiment of dark powers within ourselves which are bent upon our own destruction.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#57. Misty dreamers had not a chance with her; since, though she did not talk - talking would have been altogether repugnant to her silent nature.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#58. I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.
Gaby Hoffmann
#59. How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#60. There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.
Gaby Hoffmann
#61. Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
Gaby Hoffmann
#62. Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#63. Oh, where have you gone, you blissful dreams of future happiness
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#65. I wished I could read in their shrivelled faces and watery eyes, I wished I could hear in the bad French which came half through their pinched lips and half through their pointed noses, how the old ladies had got at least on to good terms with the uncanny beings which haunted the castle.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#66. There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#67. Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
Gaby Hoffmann
#68. Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think.
Roald Hoffmann
#69. Like a cat in heat, I wanted to rub my ass on every passing man.
N.L. Hoffmann
#70. One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.
Roald Hoffmann
#71. I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.
Roald Hoffmann
#72. None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an comprehend what the ordained utters out of his inspiration.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#73. My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
Gaby Hoffmann
#74. It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.
Gaby Hoffmann
#75. Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#76. Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#77. It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.
Stanley Hoffmann
#78. As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#79. People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.
Gaby Hoffmann
#80. Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#81. I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year.
Gaby Hoffmann
#82. It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#84. I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.
Gaby Hoffmann
#85. I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.
Gaby Hoffmann
#86. There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#87. Just because I don't let boys take over my whole life doesn't mean I don't like them.
Kerry Cohen Hoffmann
#88. When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.
Gaby Hoffmann
#89. It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#90. I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
Gaby Hoffmann
#91. Since Brazil became a democracy in 1975 over 1700 Activists and small Farmers have been murdered in Brazil alone over land reforms and the rainforest !
Norbert F Hoffmann Jr
#92. The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
#93. But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.
Banesh Hoffmann
#94. Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#95. The best way to find out if something needs to be in the picture is to leave it out.
Tom Hoffmann
#96. I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#97. I started talking to myself and using my well-worn affirmation 'I am a swimming monster' to push myself on. I
Bill Hoffmann
#98. I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from ... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
Gaby Hoffmann
#99. Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#100. I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
Gaby Hoffmann
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