Dietger Wissounig Quotes & Sayings

Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection. — Dalai Lama

Only Texans and Jews understand brisket — Anthony Bourdain

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them. — Robert Zemeckis

When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose. — Barrows Dunham

If something makes you wealthier,
it is of considerable importance.
If something makes you happier,
it is of substantial importance.
If something makes you better,
it is of monumental importance.
If something makes you wiser,
it is of astronomical importance. — Matshona Dhliwayo

New birth, new blessings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us. — Alistair Cooke

Death, as well as fortune, is rather fond of the brave. — Terry Deary

When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him. — R.A. Lafferty

To a person who loves, is not absence the most certain, the most effective, the most durable, the most indestructible, the most faithful of presences? — Marcel Proust

People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance because they think you took the easy way out, when no one would imagine the willpower it took to do what we do, walking the streets night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up. — Aileen Wuornos

Somebody put a Fascist Toejam cassette, 300 watts of sonic apocalypse, on to the van stereo, Isaiah gallantly handed Prairie up into the lurid fuchsia padding of this rolling orgy room, where she became indistinct among an unreadable pattern of Vomitones and their girlfriends, and quickly, in an arc unexpectedly graceful, they had all turned outward, tached up, engaged, and like a time machine departing for the future, forever too soon for Zoyd, boomed away up the thin, cloudpressed lane. — Thomas Pynchon

Failure is success in abeyance; but only for those who persevere. — Ashok Kallarakkal

Sometimes, when you're really depressed, all you want to do is nothing. All you want to do is lean your head on your arm, and stare into space. Sometimes this can go on for hours. If you're unusually depressed, you may have to change arms. — Charles M. Schulz

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors. — Donald Sadoway