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Robert Musil Quotes

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.

Robert Musil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: austrian
Birth: November 6, 1880 - April 15, 1942

Topics

People World Real Two People Turn

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.

Maya Angelou

Life Alone Great Art Saying Know

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.

Tom Reiss

Son City Name Pen Said Oil

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

Roger Michell

People World Trying Understand Seem

I have voted in support of efforts in the Senate to enact a Constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to one man and one woman only.

Lisa Murkowski

Marriage Woman Man Support Amendment

I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing because I just wanted to have a new job.

Diplo

Job New New Job Florida Started

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

Denzel Washington

Mother Light Child Door Sister Said

Probably the worst pickup line is no pickup line. I mean, at the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen?

Dawn Olivieri

Day End Of The Day End Worst Mean

I love it when other people can come up with ideas and tell me what to do.

Ariel Pink

Love People Me Ideas Tell Up

My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'

Prince William

Strength Relationship Man Queen Shy

I love organization, so I split my clothes into two closets according to seasons.

Kiernan Shipka

Love Organization Clothes Seasons

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

You Stop Moral Know Possible Your

I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going to make it. We spent three days there and went back home to our mummies.

Julian Barratt

Home Back Three London Days Going