Struwwelpeter Quotes

#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. Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

John Wycliffe

#3. Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

Nicolas Cage

#4. It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.

Abigail Brown

#5. You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other instead of what they mean to say. The worst purpose of dialogue is to elicit information: "You know why we're out on this space station, Carruthers - to save the universe!"

Robert Stone

#6. Our unfathomable evolutionary past paints a picture vastly more immense than any spiritual story could ever create because it is raw and real, violent, dirty and beautiful - and because of that - it's spectacular!

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#7. I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#8. I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

Charlie Kaufman

#9. Alaska did not produce supermen, but in its formative periods it was served by men of character and determination, and it is a fortunate land which knows such public servants.

James A. Michener

#10. Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

Janet Echelman

#12. I'm an only child.

Jenna Morasca