Buschers Quotes & Sayings

Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed. — Victor Hugo

Civilization ... is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed. — Edith Hamilton

Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erraticaly in all directions, that the chance of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme. — Terry Pratchett

Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you. — Cynthia Lewis

If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis. — Howard Fineman

Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together — Milton Berle

The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour - the ideal colour for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, despair. In other words, for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression. — Gerhard Richter

A streak of bare flesh darted past our door.
Mason grinned at me. "It's like we didn't even miss Fisher's party tonight."
My nurse sprinted past our door, followed by another two. — Tijan

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are. — Alan Watts

You get old faster when you think about retirement. — Toba Beta

Learn to fail or fail to learn — Tal Ben-Shahar

On the fragrance side, I think it's important that it's not overpowering, a fragrance on a man or a woman. I think it's important to see the person before you smell them. Less is more. — David Beckham

Don't repeat the lies of the liars. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Our brains are continuing to evolve, and perhaps a few tens of thousands of years from now, our descendants will walk around with five pound brains, allowing them insights that we can't imagine. — Seth Shostak

My lusts they do me leave,
My fancies all be fled,
And tract of time begins to weave
Grey hairs upon my head. — Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden