Schirmacher Homepage Quotes

#1. I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

Amanda Burton

#2. The victor powers in the Great War had irresistible force at their disposal if only they could muster the will to deploy it. But they increasingly lacked that will.

Robert Service

#3. Woody Allen was right: eighty percent of success is just showing up. "Take

Stephen King

#4. That's when I did start loving Daniel. Not when I said I did, but some moments later when he replied in kind. It was the last day of January. Winter was through.

Claire Kilroy

#5. Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

Chris Murray

#6. It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

Theodore White

#7. Thank God for the journey.

James Brown

#8. The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted.

Jerry Leiber

#9. Each human being must keep alight within him the sacred flame of madness, but behave like a normal person.

Paulo Coelho

#10. Wash your dirty dishes like you are washing the infant Jesus.

Jack Kerouac