Quotes About Weisel

#1. Sometimes, however much you plan, however many precautions you take, something happens, and in a minute the world is changed. After that, you're the person on the other side of that minute.

Frederick Weisel

#2. Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?" he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. "It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.

Frederick Weisel

#3. Nico's hair was combed straight up, stiff with mousse, the tips dyed the color of traffic cones.

Frederick Weisel

#4. But, whatever the magic, I wasn't smarter than chemistry, and after a while, I heard two people talking in the empty room next door, their whispers coming out of the phone jack.

Frederick Weisel

#5. Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.

Charles Dickens

#6. There's an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.

Frederick Weisel

#7. Aren't autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don't we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am.

Frederick Weisel

#8. What spares us is memory," he said. "It's what makes us worth saving. However low we sink, whatever promise we no longer fulfill, we tell our stories. That's why you're so important, Charlie. You're a guardian of our national memory.

Frederick Weisel

#9. I don't feel I have to share everything.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#10. If they're together long enough, every couple has one conversation over and over. This was ours.

Frederick Weisel

#11. People are complicated," she said. "Didn't they teach you that in biography school?

Frederick Weisel

#12. The thing about hitting bottom is that, in the middle of it, sometimes you don't know if you're really hitting bottom or just bouncing off ledges on your way further down.

Frederick Weisel

#13. Seth lay on a sofa. His large dirty work boots were defiantly planted on the sofa cushion, all his energy focused on smoking a cigarette, as if it were a job.

Frederick Weisel

#14. The sun had already set behind the mountains, and the sky had been drained of color. The trellises of sauvignon blanc flowed down the hill in even rows toward the valley floor. Whatever I was looking for, it wasn't outside. As far as I could tell, the grapes were minding their own business.

Frederick Weisel

#15. There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in they year, if you will do two things at a time.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#16. I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

Jane Wagner

#17. *Paying one's last respects* is about the payer, not the paid. (Who attends the funeral - and who doesn't - is the deceased's last worry.)

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn't bring ourselves to say.

Frederick Weisel

#19. No single act is entirely redemptive, but all a fallen man has is the first step back.

Frederick Weisel

#20. They say he has made a fortune selling lobsters and renting houses to the summer people.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

#21. Take this story to great heart; read through its' every word; and I hope and pray that in the end, as you enter the last phases of this story, it will move you, touch you profoundly, and guide you to the meaning of True Love.

C. David Murphy

#22. I lived that year on top of a wooden tower in an area east of Santa Rosa known as the Valley of the Moon.

Frederick Weisel

#23. Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.

Madame De Stael

#24. Take a seat, Charlie," he said. "I'll kill you in a few minutes. It'll be good for you.

Frederick Weisel

#25. Sometimes we do terrible things to the ones we love just to see what harm we can cause.

Frederick Weisel

#26. When I was on 'One Life to Live,' I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find out why she was the black sheep of the family. I so wanted to have some edge. I have no idea why there was a reluctance to do that or why we so rarely see it.

Tika Sumpter

#27. He'd always wondered what he'd do when victory wasn't an option.

Evan Currie