Ankie Spitzer Quotes & Sayings

A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation. — James Atlas

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels. — William Shakespeare

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. — Madame De Stael

The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is. — Kelly Minter

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed. — Isaac Newton

Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside, but when you knock them on the head to see if they're ready sounds like nothing's going on. — Peter Levitt

Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance. — Jaggi Vasudev

Your fear of death is not a love for life. . . — Ayn Rand

The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can't. — Mira Kirshenbaum

Thanks to the fact that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere, and invoking a bunch of Newtonian physics, you can deduce that our planet wobbles, too, taking roughly 26,000 years to trace out a small circle on the sky, a phenomenon known as precession. — Seth Shostak

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. — Gloria Swanson

To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb. — Red Auerbach

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

We have a mission to others
to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves. — J.R. Miller

I sometimes think the theatre is more demanding because it requires things you don't have in films, like it requires you to make the people in the front row believe you and not look an idiot to them while the people right at the back can hear you. — Michael Gambon