Uwe Johnson Quotes

#1. All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality . - Author: Joseph Conrad

#2. Which he said was the big lie they all bought that made doctors and standard therapy such a waste of time for people like us
they thought that diagnosis was the same as cure. That if you knew why, it would stop. Which is bullshit. You only stop if you stop. - Author: David Foster Wallace

#3. In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses. - Author: Jules Verne

#4. A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself. - Author: Robert Mankoff

#5. Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling. - Author: River Phoenix

#6. True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it. - Author: Ban Ki-moon

#7. Maybe she had found everything the world had to offer her: a notion very like despair. - Author: Joe Hill

#8. I love deadlines," he said once. "I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.") He died in May 2001 - too young. His - Author: Douglas Adams

#9. Tourist trips to Cuba are being abused. They are tourist trips that are providing hard currency for a dictatorial, tyrannical regime to get hard currency that it uses to oppress its people. And that's why these trips need to be carefully scrutinized. - Author: Marco Rubio