Beckendorff Quotes & Sayings

Koh-i-noor in a limestone-quarry as an article of that character — Albert Jay Nock

You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about. — Neal Shusterman

Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it. — Cindy Crawford

This happened not once, but twice - first with Martin Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, and then with his pupil Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. (We discuss Sartre in the next section.) — Christopher Panza

Probably the most cold-hearted thing I ever did. There was this spider in my shower - and I'm usually very kind to all of the creatures of the world - and you feel very vulnerable when you're naked, and I didn't really want to be near this spider he was kinda big and gnarly looking. The only thing that I could reach in the shower was this hairspray. So I hairspray-ed this spider to death, which was awful. I felt like such a jerk. It was really, really harsh. — Patrick Stump

Winter came early that year. Snow filled the gray December air like fragments of torn-up hope — Philip Kerr

Vanity, thy name is vampire. — Jim Butcher

Most, actually, German actors have like some speaking of French. So, the French wasn't the problem. But, I was having a problem with them doing my dialogue in English. And it wasn't a matter of fluency. — Quentin Tarantino

A few years later, Mendeleev, now famous, divorced his wife and wanted to remarry. Although the conservative local church said he had to wait seven years, he bribed a priest and got on with the nuptials. This technically made him a bigamist, but no one dared arrest him. When a local bureaucrat complained to the tsar about the double standard applied to the case- the priest was defrocked-the tsar primly replied, I admit, Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev. — Sam Kean

Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity. — Alexandre Dumas-fils

Of course I couldn't have her. No one could. It was impossible to trap a beam of sunlight. The only thing you could do was enjoy the warmth for as long as it lasted. — Cari Quinn

Better not be at all than not be noble. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it. — A.R. Rahman