Boy Striped Pyjamas Quotes & Sayings

Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition? — Jostein Gaarder

On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter. — Dorothy Parker

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. — Arthur Miller

I don't have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don't think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice. — Richard Stallman

We often tell ourselves off for wasting time in chairs, fully dressed, when we could be doing the same lying down in bed, face to face and naked. — Ian McEwan

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature. — Whitley Strieber

Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you. — Gregory David Roberts

Just because you can build a machine that is better than a person at something doesn't mean that it is going to have the ability to learn new domains or connect different types of information or context to do superhuman things. This is critically important to appreciate. — Mark Zuckerberg

When we are confident, all we need is a little support. — Andre Laurendeau

My style was nostalgic and involved pearls and penny loafers, always with the pennies in them. — Mia Sara

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity. — Richard Koch

Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem. — Peter Ginter

There are some people who will never see you as being good enough. That is their short-coming not yours. Be merciful enough to yourself to cut them out of your life. — Steve Maraboli

Well, I've worried some about, you know, why write books ... why are we teaching people to write books when presidents and senators do not read them, and generals do not read them. And it's been the university experience that taught me that there is a very good reason, that you catch people before they become generals and presidents and so forth and you poison their minds with ... humanity, and however you want to poison their minds, it's presumably to encourage them to make a better world. — Kurt Vonnegut

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot. — Chi Chi Rodriguez