Lorenz Klopfenstein > Lorenz's Quotes

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.”
― Roger Zelazny, Frost & Fire

“The word itself—dyslexia—is ironically very hard for dyslexic people to spell correctly”
― Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

“No one ever says, “This piece of creative work is crap, but they made it in a couple of weeks, so let’s go and check it out.”
― Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

“And there is a rule in every major religion, called the Golden Rule. Essentially: treat other people the way you’d like to be treated yourself. If we all did this, the whole world would work instantaneously. Praying, meditation—fine. But just follow the Golden Rule and the whole world works. Making the world work could be that simple.”
― Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

“They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.”
― Eddie Izzard

“Cake or death?”
― Eddie Izzard

“Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

“In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe