I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
The pill is one of the biggest advances I’ve seen.
In the past, we learned to cope with challenges ourselves. Today, a lot of people younger than me are not resistant to the vicissitudes and emotional challenges of life. If you’ve been told all your life that it’s the others who should spoil you and keep you free of problems, you’re probably a very sober person emotionally.
Maintain a natural gait even if you shit your pants
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be home.
Life is like a game of chess. I don’t know how to play chess.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
A good breakfast can save the day.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
Too much learning can crack even the freshest!
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
A man should only work 4 hours a day so he may have time to devote himself to the arts and sciences.
When you get as old as I am and no longer have a husband or dog, and the children have long since left home, you can sit and get a little wiser by thinking. Then it’s time to edit your memories and start looking at your life again. First come the regrets, then come the wrongs you’ve done, mistakes you’ve made – and all the things you can sit and brood over if you’re already in a bad mood. But you can also understand people and contexts in a new way.
Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, itøs probably crap.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.