Bandoneon Germany Quotes & Sayings

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. — Kahlil Gibran

From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him. — W.N.P. Barbellion

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. — Og Mandino

Paranoid isn't a bad thing to be when the whole world is out to get you! 03-24-2011 — Jan Thomas

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer. — Gia Coppola

Have you ever taken a hard look at those pictures from the sit-ins in the '60s, a hard, serious look? Have you ever looked at the faces? The faces are neither angry, nor sad, nor joyous. They betray almost no emotion. They look out past their tormentors, past us, and focus on something way beyond anything known to me. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion. — Robert Charles Wilson

She had burned through a fair sampling of manhood trying to find someone, not to make her "happy" - that wasn't the point - but to cauterize her relentlessly dripping wounds. — Arthur Phillips

It's hard being the NBA's sex symbol, but somebody has to do it. — Shaquille O'Neal

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. — Logan Pearsall Smith

If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war. — Charles Albert Gobat

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake. — Simon Raven

Fear the vulture, and the vulture will come. Fear nothing, and you are the vulture. — Suzy Kassem

My liberal friends love to dismiss Reagan. You know, they'll say something like, 'Oh, didn't he, like, only read one-page memos when he was in the White House?' Well, that's just good managerial practice. I mean, Franklin Roosevelt made people write one-page memos. — Rick Perlstein