Buchmendel Quotes & Sayings

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal

One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion. — Stefan Zweig

Just as an astronomer, alone in an observatory, watches night after night through a telescope the myriads of stars, their mysterious movements, their changeful medley, their extinction and their flaming-up anew, so did Jacob Mendel, seated at his table in the Cafe Gluck, look through his spectacles into the universe of books, a universe that lies above the world of our everyday life, and, like the stellar universe, is full of changing cycles. — Stefan Zweig

I was the last girl in Larchmont, NY to get married. My mother had a sign up: "Last Girl Before Freeway." — Joan Rivers

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. — Roald Dahl

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention. — Pat Conroy

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it's with you for life-like the color of your eyes. — Marilyn Monroe

How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins. — Stefanie Schneider

Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures. — Thomas Mann

Your requests change history because your prayers change God! — Max Lucado