„When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.“
— John D. MacDonald writer from the United States 1916 - 1986
Travis McGee series, (1979)
— John D. MacDonald writer from the United States 1916 - 1986
Travis McGee series, (1979)
— Fausto Cercignani Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
— Pope John Paul II 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint 1920 - 2005
Address to High School Students
Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1979/october/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19791003_ny-madison-square-garden_en.html
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine, Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine (1957), Context: “I don’t know,” he admitted.
“Well.” She started pouring tea. “To start things off, what do you think of the world?”
“I don’t know anything.”
“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you’re seventeen you know everything. When you’re twenty-seven if you still know everything you’re still seventeen.”
“You seem to have learned quite a lot over the years.”
“It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it’s an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn’t life a play? Don’t I play it well?”
They both laughed quietly.
p. 142
— Mae West American actress and sex symbol 1893 - 1980
Quoted in "For Women, Monologues They Haven't Heard" by Susan Pomerance, Dramaline Publications (1985)
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
— Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
— Jerome K. Jerome English humorist 1859 - 1927
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
— Miyamoto Musashi Japanese martial artist, writer, artist 1585 - 1645
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Water Book
— Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
— Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Sri Lankan Sufi leader 1900 - 1986
— Peter Cook British architect 1937 - 1995
E. L. Wisty, Context: Hitler was a very peculiar person wasn't he? He was another dominator you know — Hitler. And he was a wonderful ballroom dancer. Not many people know that. … Of course Mrs Hitler was a charming woman, wasn't she? She's still alive, you know. I saw her down the Edgware Road only the other day. She'd just popped into the chemist's to buy something, and I saw her sign the cheque "Mrs Hitler" so I knew it was she. I tried to go up and talk to her, but she slipped away into the crowd. I was hoping she'd be able to come to the next meeting of the World Domination League. Not many people do.
"The World Domination League" (1964)
— Patricia A. McKillip American fantasy writer 1948
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), Chapter 4, p. 105.
— Jozef Israëls Dutch painter 1824 - 1911
Quotes of Jozef Israels, after 1900, translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
version in Dutch (citaat van Jozef Israëls, in het Nederlands): ..op mijn reizen bijvoorbeeld, in het buitenland,. ..ik zie dingen die me aantrekken, in werken van anderen, - die me imponeeren. Daar denk-je dan eens over na. En als je dan thuiskomt denk-je: zoo iets moet ik toch óók eens maken.. .Dan begin-je eraan, en als 't klaar is lijkt het op het werk van dien of dien.. Maar je eigen originaliteit gaat tòch niet verloren, - je sentiment blijft!. ..En zo gaat het niet alleen met mij, - zoo gaat het ook met anderen.. .Je bouwt onwillekeurig voort op motieven van ànderen..
Quoted by N.H. Wolf, in 'Bij onze Nederlandsche kunstenaars. IV. - Jozef Israëls, Grootmeester der Nederlandsche Schilders', in Wereldkroniek, 8 Feb. 1902