Tucholsky Zitate Quotes

#1. You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

Shunryu Suzuki

#2. The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

Bruce Springsteen

#3. Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.

Billy Graham

#4. The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

Algernon Sidney

#5. Against the descending sun the battlements were dark and clean-lined, while to the east, where the uninhibited light poured slantwise, the strange landscape shouted with color.

John Steinbeck

#6. A woman is a sometime thing.

DuBose Heyward

#7. I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

Tim Robbins

#8. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon

#9. Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#10. You just wouldn't be happy until I had to drag my ass up here to this godforsaken icebox that is. Gotta tell you I'm feelin' some hate here my man. Or I would be if I could actually feel anything other than Arctic cold gnawing at my vitals.

Lara Adrian

#11. Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.

Martina Boone

#12. Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds."
"Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when you swear."
"You're right. Sorry. Holy shit," I breathed, "heckhounds.

Jim Butcher

#13. If the groom-to-be's views were actually considered, the wedding would be a far more relaxed affair, possibly involving go-carts.

Dave Barry