Venus In Furs Quotes

#1. The Plastic People of the Universe played 'Venus in Furs' from Velvet Underground, and I knew everything was basically okay.

Tom Stoppard

#2. Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#3. Time is really the only gift we receive from God that we can give to others.

Homer Hickam

#4. To live is to choose and you should choose what is attainable and adequate. Ignore everything else.

Anonymous

#5. Dangerous forces lie within me. You awaken them, and not to your advantage. You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#6. I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role.

Rebel Wilson

#7. I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#8. The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#9. She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#10. The recognition of a distinct 'national identity' among members of the Body of Christ can keep before us our ties with Christians who live under different secular governments, with whom we have bonds that transcend and override our commitments to governments and groups outside the church.

Richard J. Mouw

#11. Saying 'I don't know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.

Kyle Schmalenberg

#12. You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#13. Freedom is not a constitution, or the day it is declared, it's a long process and all of us, each one of us removing the constraints that keep us unfree.

Ari Sitas

#14. Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#15. You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a question of pleasure.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#16. Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!

Ashwin Sanghi

#17. I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

Curt Schilling

#18. The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#19. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Maya Angelou

#20. My fast is a matter between God and myself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#22. What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.

Andy Summers

#23. As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.

Dominique Wilkins

#24. All about us the earth steamed; mists rose up toward heaven like clouds of incense; a shattered rainbow still hovered in the air.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#25. You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasurable torture, of pungent cruelty. This is a genuinely modern point of view.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#26. Dreams Are Where It All Begins

Jose Eduardo Agualusa