"A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly."

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.”
“I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.”
“Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.”

Source : Lisa McMann (2012). “Dead to You”, p.71, Simon and Schuster
“I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.”

Source : "Preflight Interview: Umberto Guidoni". Interview with Kim Dismukes, spaceflight.nasa.gov. April 7, 2002.
“The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.”
“I've grown extremely tired of the face of the world.”
“Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?”
“O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!”

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