Bohnenberger Robert Quotes & Sayings

Women think black is the most flattering color, but they're wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye. — Oscar De La Renta

Bathing is even more embarrassing, because I have to strip down to my birthday suit in front of a nurse. Now, there are some things that never die, so even though I'm in my nineties my sap sometimes rises. I can't help it. They always pretend not to notice. They're trained that way, I suppose, although pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing. It means they consider me nothing more than a harmless old man sporting a harmless old penis that still gets uppity once in a while. Although if one of them took it seriously and tried to do something about it, the shock would probably kill me. — Sara Gruen

They are strong," David said. "But there's a strong wind today and we drink according to the wind. — Ernest Hemingway,

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity. — Dmitri Shostakovich

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed. — Honore De Balzac

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead

Spices were certainly regarded as antidotes to earthly squalor in another, more mystical sense. They were thought to be splinters of paradise that had found their way into the ordinary world. — Tom Standage

Dominating all earth from outer space will have an out-of-this-world price tag, perhaps more than $1 trillion. A question: Why reach for the stars with guns in our hands? Are there weapons of mass destruction on Mars? — Dennis Kucinich

I'm from Holland, and I'm used to rain. — Marianne Vos

Life is a planetary level phenomonon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal a sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves. — Lynn Margulis

God would rather have His people living in shameful captivity in a pagan land than living like pagans in the Holy Land and disgracing His name. — Warren W. Wiersbe

There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising. — Geoffrey Howe