I read like the flame reads the wood.


Alfred Döblin

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I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.
HEATHER O'ROURKE
So. Jetzt läßt das Zucken nach. Jetzt liegst du still. Wir sind am Ende von Physiologie und Theolo...
ALFRED DöBLIN
I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
JOHN ADAMS
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read...
JOHN ADAMS
We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at ...
JACK GILBERT
Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I
I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I
On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I
casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I
I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I
I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I
I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I
I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I
I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I
You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I
I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I
Married to the Mob.
LIKE I
Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I
I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I
throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I
I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
DWIGHT L. MOODY
Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil
EMINEM
My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON
No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi...
ROBERT AICKMAN
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
If your best friends do not read books, they reads you.
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think a...
ERIC BOGOSIAN
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS
You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS
People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS
The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON
Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON

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The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
ALFRED SMITH
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh...
ALFRED SMITH
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED SMITH
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to s...
ALFRED SMITH
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
ALFRED SLOAN
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. T...
ALFRED SLOAN
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
ALFRED SLOAN
In any organization men would move up from the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition an...
ALFRED SLOAN
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force ...
ALFRED SLOAN
A car for every purse and purpose.
ALFRED SLOAN
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obsta...
ALFRED SLOAN
Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so...
ALFRED SLOAN
If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m...
ALFRED SLOAN
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
ALFRED SISLEY
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
ALFRED SISLEY
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
ALFRED SISLEY
Our family lived in Vienna, Austria. after the war and apart from an accordion, there was no other m...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in ...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long la...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
ALFRED ROSENBERG
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
ALFRED ROSENBERG