Bommen Berend Quotes & Sayings

'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls. — Craig Shirley

To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.] — Horace

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. — William Cowper

Angel looks down at him and says, Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender? — Patti Smith

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books. — Michael Foreman

If the NRA keeps messing with the President's daughters, they're going to have to start worrying about Michelle Obama's guns. — Bill Maher

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

... we can define concept as a logical, mental construction of one or more relationships. [...] It is purely mental, is logical, and can be described; it has been reasoned through sufficiently and presented with clarity. As such, a concept is inherently abstract (takes some things as given or assumed) — Don E. Ethridge

If you like music you like silence actually. — David Hockney

the Japanese ministry of Education acted with inappropriate haste and unforgivable cavalierness, implementing drastic change before anyone realized what was happening. . . . In English it would be almost ad bad as enforcing a new spelling of philosophy as filosofee. — Minae Mizumura

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. — Max Brooks