Siegfried > Siegfried's Quotes

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
― Dorothea Lange

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.”
― Colleen McCullough, Caesar

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“Qu'importait si, accusé de meurtre, il était exécuté pour n'avoir pas pleuré à l'enterrement de sa mère.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger