Odon Von Horvath Quotes

I would never go home again in quite the same way, but that was okay too. ~ Polly Horvath

The only really interesting things about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart. ~ Polly Horvath

It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look. ~ Polly Horvath

I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant. ~ Polly Horvath

It is never a bad thing to take up your fair share of space, said Mr. Bunny ambiguously. ~ Polly Horvath

You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps. ~ Polly Horvath

And, I often think, the truth isn't good or bad, it's just the truth. ~ Polly Horvath

No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently. ~ Polly Horvath

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists. ~ Polly Horvath

All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to. ~ Polly Horvath

My mother smoked too but I guessed by now she had quit the habit, which was, I supposed, one of the advantages of being shipwrecked. ~ Polly Horvath

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float. ~ Polly Horvath

We read a lot of books. Children's books mostly, because they're always much more truthful than adult books. And much more entertaining, said Mrs. Bunny. ~ Polly Horvath

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with. ~ Polly Horvath

I think part of her feared that if Mother could leave her that way, she must be unlovable. And of course, she wasn't. ~ Polly Horvath

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit. ~ Polly Horvath

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe. ~ Polly Horvath

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay. ~ Polly Horvath

My epiphany: Printed words were the shadows of referents. Things: rock, sand, onion. Ideas: carpool, justice, maximization, irrevocability. Paragraphs were composite shadows of the scenarios and subjects they captured: the overwhelming richness and messiness of the world distilled to bare, chiaroscuroed necessity. ~ Tim Horvath

Some people, well, most people just seem to show up on your life with no clear purpose. Have you noticed that? They're like dust mites. You know they're there, you just don't know what to do about them. ~ Polly Horvath

You can be sunk low or as a skunk and still have a joy in your heart. Joy lives like one of those spinning things
a gyroscope in your heart. It doesn't seem to have any connection to circumstance, good or bad. ~ Polly Horvath

She was alone in the stillness of the universe a little while before all the confusion began. It was if she could hear it ticking, check in on the life at the very center of it, its wellspring that everyone somehow knows, before it was covered by noise. ~ Polly Horvath

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know. ~ Polly Horvath

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them? ... Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone? ~ Polly Horvath

We all belong here equally ... Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy. ~ Polly Horvath

All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the places that you go and sometimes you find them out by being jettisoned off alone and other times it is the people who choose to stand by your side who give you the clues. But the important things that happen to you will happen to you even in the smallest places ... ~ Polly Horvath

Yesterday I was so full of hope. My life seemed blessed, full of adventures and answered prayers, and now something very, very bad has happened and it will never be the same again. And it all happened because I was greedy. Because I couldn't have an ordinary life. Because I was so taken with the wonders of the world that I could not be content with anything less than the constant awareness of its miracles. ~ Polly Horvath

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot. ~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

Focus on the now and kick ass! ~ A.R. Von

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper. ~ Polly Horvath

I'm starving to learn more about her. A new hunger that I know only she could satisfy. ~ A.R. Von

My words are like a musical instrument, softly & seductively playing under the moonlight as they penetrate the depths of your loins! ~ Rokk-I La' VON

VW used to mean FAHRVERGNUGEN and now it's FARFROMUNION!

Birgit Von Schondorf ~ Birgit Von Schondorf

I keep staring at the bag in Mrs. Parks's hand: yellows, greens, blues, whites, pastel colors so soft they look as if they have faded in the sea. The washed colors of the sea and sleep. Pajama colors. The colors of baby clothes. In my nose is the smell of my brothers' heads after they are born. Maybe this is why people making journeys buy saltwater taffy. It gives you the lovely dreamy sense that you can start all over again from the beginning. ~ Polly Horvath

Those items your woman is looking at are a gift from the goddess, you oaf! ~ A.R. Von

Beware the faces that bare the most smiles.
For they are the ones who hide the most sadness - . ~ A.R. Von

Wow! This woman is doing a lot of strange things to me and I want more. Much more. ~ A.R. Von

And Mrs. Treaclebunny has promised to speak English from now on as well. In fact, she said when she goes to England, that's all she speaks anyway because the animals speak English there. She says anyone who has read children's books with animals in them set in England would know that. Is The Wind in the Willows written in Mole with a little Ratty thrown in? Is Winnie-the-Pooh written in Bear? No, it's English, because that's what the animals there speak. I didn't know that before. Travel is so broadening. ~ Polly Horvath

I have to admit. Saying goodbye - leaving Bonnie. Was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my entire life. It actually hurt ... ~ A.R. Von

Every day we hear a little melody,reading a beautiful poem, see a fine painting and,If possible, say the words. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My body - I do not fall to pieces and be reduced to a big pile of lovable mush over a woman, never! ~ A.R. Von

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere. ~ Gian-Carlo Rota

Just give me more, better memories to replace the bad ones. I'll be back to normal before we know it. ~ A.R. Von

No one starts a war
or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so
without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Oh, how I wish I was a woman - his woman. ~ A.R. Von

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches. ~ Dita Von Teese

Anyone who abandon's their children should be hung, by their toenails while awaiting flesh eating ants or some other painful flesh eating hungry creature to consume them. Slowly and painfully ... ~ A.R. Von

So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher? asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled.
Because I'm Chuck Bass. ~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. ~ John Von Neumann

An element which stimulates itself will hold a stimulus indefinitely. ~ John Von Neumann

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind ~ Alexander Von Humboldt

Little girls with big ideas are much scarier than monsters. ~ Clementine Von Radics

Lord takes care of babes, fools, and the United States. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

Now is the time to become a myth. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking. ~ Roger Von Oech

How often the pillars of our wisdom have crumbled into dust! ~ Erich Von Daniken

What a blessing it is to love books. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

Every day, we are assassinating nearly 16,000 additional victims. ~ Henning Von Tresckow

One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions. ~ Wernher Von Braun

One does not want to tear oneself away from this anguish. ~ Nadezhka Von Meck

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted ~ Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

He thought her delightful, - freckles, picnic-untidiness and all. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Man belongs wherever he wants to go. ~ Wernher Von Braun

Tinsley felt like a puppeteer playing with her marionettes, holding all the strings. ~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

I'm feeling particularly good and wicked at the moment. ~ A.R. Von

When will I sop belonging
to this hungry thing inside of me? ~ Clementine Von Radics

Ignore the critics ... Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different! ~ Dita Von Teese

Strategy can therefore never take its hand from the work for a moment. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

It was a place to bless God in and cease from vain words. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

Learn to understand the real beauty of simplicity. ~ Christoph Von Schmid

Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

My definition of beauty is strength and personality. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

If anyone else were to kiss me, all they would taste is your name. ~ Clementine Von Radics

What's the hurry? Are you afraid I won't come back? ~ Manfred Von Richthofen

Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low ~ Herbert Von Karajan

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be. ~ Dita Von Teese

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan. ~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I will always be within reach if you need me, little one ... ~ A.R. Von

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Everyone else isn't you. It turns out that's a huge problem for me. ~ Clementine Von Radics

... a strong character is one that will not be unbalanced by the most powerful emotions ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

joy and sorrow, when they are both lived in God, signify fruitfulness for the apostolate. ~ Adrienne Von Speyr

Nature does not know extinction, only transformation ~ Werner Von Braun

...vanity is content with the appearance alone ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

I'm not someone who calculates things. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

You fill my soul with hope and love.
Together, we will remain through the heavens above.
One soul, together. For always and forever ... ~ A.R. Von

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are. ~ Ellen Von Unwerth

Vodka was a liquid cultural yardstick, an eighty-proof vehicle of escape from the socialist daily grind. ~ Anya Von Bremzen

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices. ~ Heinz Von Foerster

No better is the propensity, very popular nowadays, to brand supporters of other ideologies as lunatics. Psychiatrists ~ Ludwig Von Mises

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization ~ Ludwig Von Mises

In bed by herself: adorable condition. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

Politics ruins the character ~ Otto Von Bismarck

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

In order to retain a certain respect for sausages and laws, one must not see them being made. ~ Otto Von Bismarck