Bertschinger Oil Quotes & Sayings

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished. — Jamaica Kincaid

My robust lexicon notwithstanding, I struggle to find the right words to describe just how much I despise, hate, abhor, revile, detest and categorically abominate anything to do with home maintenance. While cooking strikes me as an essentially creative act, cleaning seems little more than an exercise in decay management, enough to trigger an existential crisis each time the ring around the toilet bowl reappears. — Rachel Held Evans

My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible. — Brian Tee

Sometimes, too, just as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, so a woman would come into existence while I was sleeping, conceived from some strain in the position of my limbs. — Marcel Proust

I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked. — Bill Bennett

It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead. — Jools Holland

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. — Colin Quinn

There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you. — Damon Galgut

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different. — John Archibald Wheeler

Beliefs and thoughts alter cells in your body. — Bruce H. Lipton

The lower you fall the higher you can rise. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The healthy and the unhealthy are not necessarily at the opposite ends of spectrum. They don't stand in opposition to each other, but rather complement each other, and in some cases even band together. — Haruki Murakami

Cities are built out of poet's dreams. — Marty Rubin

Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive. — Barry Nalebuff