"What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula."

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Gunter Grass

#Memories Quotes #Sunset Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.”
“Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and so with wooden ploughs we continue to draw lonely furrows, most successfully when we strike sand.”
“I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”
“I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.”

Source : "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.
“Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.”
“I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.”

Source : Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons
“I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything.”

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