Wg Sebald The Emigrants Quotes

#1. Life is all about chances. It's all about these little moments that add up to greatness. And there are times when you have to grab greatness by the balls and say, 'Hey! Greatness! I've got your nuts and you can't do a single godsdamn thing about it!

T.J. Klune

#2. When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#3. Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.

Louise J. Kaplan

#4. Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

#5. Where we got to know eachother. Not just with words, it was how we observed eachother's movements. The way your smile only effected the lower half of your face. How our hands moved when they were close: as if they had minds of their own.

Elaine Turnbo

#6. More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.

Jim Beaver

#7. It was August 5th in 1971. The vortex of summer. Joshua looked unwaveringly at Meredith Hurley. She looked back with kindness, and smiled softly as she looked back, feeling a connection that was invisible to the naked eye, yet magnetic and manifested in both of their hearts.

Keira D. Skye

#8. What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Irene Nemirovsky

#9. Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.

May Sarton

#10. I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

H.G.Wells

#11. Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.

Camilo Villegas

#12. Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

Lao-Tzu

#13. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Thing are made slowly and in pain.

Hugh Jackman

#14. This would never happen to Van Damme. Heroes never shit. They only fuck and kill.

D.B.C. Pierre

#15. If the intuition must conform to the nature of the objects, I do not see how we can know anything of them a priori. If, on the other hand, the object conforms to the nature of our faculty of intuition, I can then easily conceive the possibility of such an a priori knowledge.

Immanuel Kant