W. G. Sebald Quotes

Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

W. G. Sebald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: May 18, 1944 - December 14, 2001

Topics

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As good as 'Twin Peaks' was, and I mean, it's a superb work that's way ahead of its time, and we've never caught up, and we never will... I mean, we will never catch up to 'Twin Peaks.'

Michael J. Anderson

WorkGoodTimeAheadWayNever

Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.

Stewart Butterfield

BadVirtueCompanyBoundariesEmail

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Stonewall Jackson

PatriotismFightingCountryEarth

The pressure in Hollywood is bigger to look good than in Germany. In Germany, we are more forgiving. Having a personal coach in Germany is not nearly as common as in Hollywood. In Hollywood, I think everyone has a personal trainer.

Sibel Kekilli

GoodThinkPressureLookPersonal

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Romola Garai

PassionCharacterIdeasYouPossible

The whole acting game can sometimes be a bit false, and you meet a lot of people in it for the fame - so there's nothing I love more than going back to Essex.

Michelle Dockery

LovePeopleGameYouBackActing

I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.

Michael T. Flynn

CouragePeopleLookingThinkClarity

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

Janna Levin

StoryThinkTellingI ThinkCertain

There are those who have a knowledge and passion for the theatre, and those who don't.

Diana Rigg

PassionKnowledgeTheatreWhoThose

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

Douglas Coupland

TimeWealthEconomyModernAbout

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

Christiane Amanpour

TeaBoyBeginGoingJustWanted

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Winston Churchill

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