Herta Muller Quotes

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body.

If a drink was ice cold, it would be impossible to drink. Because it would be solid. Here's a drink, Mitch - it's ice cold. I guess I could lick it.

You cannot flea a stone.

It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.

There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body.

I'll never go. How can I? How far would I get without my heart?

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

Many a false step is made standing still.

Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.

It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

Something that never happens anywhere at any time.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

Only those who never step, never stumble.