Quotes by german authors

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?' Heidi Klum

Myself Say Dream Know Got Pinch Often Just Lucky Why

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do. Heidi Klum

Best You Think Give Parent Then Your

People say, 'Oh, God, how devastating to go through a divorce.' Did I wish for this to happen to my family? No. But everyone is healthy; we're moving on with our lives. Heidi Klum

I was being rejected all the time. Agents would say, 'I don't think you're the type they're looking for.' I was always like, 'You think? I don't want you to think. I want them to think that.' This business is all about someone's opinion, but not the agent or the manager's. How do they know? They're not that person. Heidi Klum

I'm going to be 80, walking with a stick down the runway. Heidi Klum

Down Runway Stick Walking Going

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading. Heidi Klum

Reading Bad Baking Go Letting Letting Go Things

If you love what you do, then you always find the time. Heidi Klum

Love Time You Find Always Then

I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that's just, you know, you - that's your journey, you know? Heidi Klum

Smile Journey You Mirror Looking Teeth See Brush Feel Like Know Lines Yes Just Then Your Things Here

On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France. Heinrich Boll

My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate. Heinrich Boll

Correspondence Would Marvel He Over Most Well Knows Passages German Just Anyone Sensitivity Interesting Certain Even Appreciate

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it. Heinrich Boll

You Humor Define Attain Ambiguous Very Really Hard Hardest Things

I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns. Heinrich Boll

Son Wife Born Cologne His December Sculptor Maria

As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house. Heinrich Boll

Wife Relatives Few Down Settled Destroyed Cologne Over Countryside House Return Accompanied Years December Where Evacuation Early

Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work. Heinrich Boll

Work Freelance Shifting Summer Address Statistics Postal Temporary Cologne Writer Between Employee Continually Fixed Bureau Place Worked Lived

Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy. Heinrich Boll

Me Kind Guy Medals Suit

I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me. Heinrich Boll

The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible. Heinrich Boll

War Thought Believe Possible Responsible Person Any Planned Plans

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union. Heinrich Boll

Life Dictatorship Own Like Soviet Soviet Union Literature Union Even

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. Heinrich Heine

Great People Will Revolution Sacrificed Fails Always Hearts Whether Succeeds

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man. Heinrich Heine

Man Girl Difficult Find Prettiest Get Just Common Phenomenon

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. Heinrich Heine

Good World Money Evil Enough Good Lord Fact Lord Created Fundamental

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. Heinrich Heine

Great Family Bible Jews Chronicle Great Family

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. Heinrich Heine

Religion Man Sense Every Consolation Some Terror His Either Every Man