Schlagwort: Quote
Quote of the Day
„Gute Gedanken ebenso wie schlechte, heitere Stimmung ebenso wie düstere, edle und weitende Gefühle ebenso wie engherzige und bedrückende, selbstlose Bestrebungen ebenso wie selbstsüchtige – sie alle haben die Tendenz, sich auszubreiten und andere zu beeinflussen, selbst dann, wenn sie nicht in Worten oder Taten ausgedrückt werden.“
– Meher Baba (Darlegungen über das Leben in Liebe und Wahrheit)
Quote of the Day
„Dann füllten sich die Tische mit Fleisch: Antilopen mit ihrem Gehörn, Pfauen mit ihrem Gefieder, ganze Hammel, die in süßem Wein gebraten waren, Kamel- und Büffelkeulen, Igel in Garum, geröstete Grillen und eingemachte Bilche. In Schüsseln aus Tamrapanniholz schwammen in Safran große Fettstücke. Alles war mit Salzlake, Trüffeln und Assa Foetida reichlich gewürzt. Die Pyramiden aus Früchten stürzten über Honigkuchen zusammen, und man hatte auch jene kleinen dickbauchigen, rosahaarigen Hunde nicht vergessen, die mit Oliventrebern gemästet wurden…“
– Gustave Flaubert (Salammbo)
Character driven
„It has been said that if the protagonists of Hamlet and Othello were reversed, there would have been no tragedy: Hamlet would have seen through Iago in no time and Othello would not have hesitated to kill King Claudius.“
– Barbara W. Tuchman (The March of Folly – From Troy to Vietnam)
Ein gutes Beispiel für character driven vs. plot driven.
Quote of the Day
„Drinking, whoring, food and fictions
Are my only true addictions.“
– Pawel Gurasijewitsch, the famous linguist of Estonian origin, (Ich stand auf Messers Schneide)
Quote of the Day
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: ‚Have you read a work of Shakespeare’s?‘
I now believe that if I had asked an even simpler question – such as, What do you mean by mass, or acceleration, which is the scientific equivalent of saying, ‚Can you read?‘ – not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same language. So the great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their Neolithic ancestors would have had.
– C.P. Snow (Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution)
Quote of the Day
„Eisenwerkzeuge und ausgeprägt warmes Klima – im Mittel 3 Grad wärmer als heute – trugen zu einer enormen Steigerung landwirtschaftlicher Produktivität bei…“
Kai Vogelsang (Kleine Geschichte Chinas)
Es geht um die Zeit um 453-221 v.Chr.
Quote of the Day
‚You see he was mad. He believed he was nine people at the same time.‘
‚Must have made life very difficult for him.‘
‚It certainly did. Particularly as one of the people was Ethel Barrymore and another Harpo Marx.‘
‚Were most of them film stars?‘
‚Directors as well. He’d been a script-writer you see.‘
‚Enough to drive anyone off his rocker,‘ I said, remembering my own experience.
‚Exactly,‘ the ATS agreed.
– Julian MacLaren-Ross (‚The Nine Men of Soho‘ in Bitten by the Tarantula and other writing)
Quote of the Day
„There’s a streak of the exhibitionist in Guy“, said Clarence. „He likes to feel himself at the centre. He likes to have a following.“
„Well, he certainly has got a following.“
„A following of fools.“
„That’s the only sort anyone can hope to have. The discriminating are lonely….“
– Olivia Manning (The Great Fortune)
Oh, nothing!
„We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, „Oh, nothing!““
– George Eliot (Middlemarch)
Wenn der Tag noch jung ist. Breakfast in Albania.