Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

Carlos Fuentes

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Carlos Fuentes

In literature, you know only what you imagine

Carlos Fuentes

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

Carlos Fuentes

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.

Carlos Fuentes

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.

Carlos Fuentes

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

Carlos Fuentes

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Carlos Fuentes

I need, therefore I imagine.

William Shakespeare

Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.

William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

Bruce Paltrow

When you come to Venice, you do special work.

Jan Morris

Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima

Eli Roth

Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!"

William Shakespeare

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

Barbet Schroeder

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

Arthur Symons

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

William Shakespeare

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

Alan Sugar

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

David Aebischer

We are going to have to win over Germany and Italy, that's where we focus.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

Serge Schmemann

My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. We talked about these things at the dinner table, at their schools, with their friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Boris Becker

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

W. G. Sebald

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

Paul Mooney

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.