Blottysher Quotes & Sayings

And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. And their cold cherry soup is a horror to us, and yet it sends a German into ecstacy. In short, symphonic development is just like German philosophy and soup-all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning. — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Social class. Class remains our national awkward topic, usually mumbled over in academic diversity workshops; indeed, most people don't know how to talk about class without automatically coupling it with race. That's because we Americans are loath to recognize that the sky's-the-limit potential we take as our birthright comes at a price far beyond what many Americans--of any race--can afford to pay. — Maureen Corrigan

Love and laughter are stronger than cancer. — Tanya Masse

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to. — Quentin Crisp

Nineteen people flew into the towers. It seems hard for me to imagine that we could go to war enough to make the world safe enough that nineteen people wouldn't want to do harm to us. So it seems like we have to rethink a strategy that is less military-based. — Jon Stewart

The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord. — James L. Kraft

Get up: the illusory barrier of the warm blankets, the thin armor of sleep, the nightly evasion with its very torments drops to pieces around us, and we find ourselves mercilessly awake, exposed to insult, atrociously naked and vulnerable. A — Primo Levi

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels! — Austin Butler

All human progress is preceded by new questions — Tony Robbins

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life. — Saint Augustine

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked. — David Coleman

I was getting depressed. My life wasn't going anywhere. I needed something, the flashing of lights, glamour, some damn thing. And here I was, talking to the dead. I finished my first drink. The second was ready. — Charles Bukowski