Thomas Mann Tonio Kroger Quotes

#1. It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle.

Julius Wellhausen

#2. It was [Hugh's] omnipresent fear that some woman might be foisted on him who would turn out to be an adventuress and would blackmail him. This preoccupation made it almost impossible for him to engage a secretary.

Anthony Powell

#3. The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#4. I do not talk about my weaknesses, I work on them.

Fedor Emelianenko

#5. You forget that when a woman finds a good man, a man who loves her and makes her happy, she doesn't fuck around.

Sylvain Reynard

#6. Get over here and give your man some love.

Harper Sloan

#7. On the table beside me is a book entitled Love's Desperate Desire. Based on the cover, I would have called it My Spectacular Washboard Abs.

Rick Yancey

#8. Some genius of the South
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.

Jean Toomer

#9. That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.

Damon Galgut

#10. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

Henry David Thoreau