Donnerstag In English Quotes & Sayings

'Twin Peaks' is my favorite show of all time. — James Roday

O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
The poets labouring all their days
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a woman's gaze ... — William Butler Yeats

Left alone in an interrogation room, some men will look as though they're well into their last ten seconds before throwing up. And they'll look that way for hours. They sweat like they just climbed out of the swimming pool. They eat and swallow air. I mean these guys are really going through it. You come and tip a light in their face. And they're bugeyed - the orbs both big and red, and faceted also. Little raised soft-cornered squares, wired with rust.
These are the innocent. — Martin Amis

We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do. — Kristin Cast

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. — Jonathan Swift

I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service. — Beeban Kidron

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent. — Jack Vance

The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation. — Cormac McCarthy

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big. — Scott Hamilton

Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them. — Patrick O'Brian

For the history of left-hand-path ideas, the all-important figure of Odin underwent a radical, yet predictable, splitting of image. He was - like all the other gods - portrayed as the epitome of evil. In parts of Germany, the speaking of his name was forbidden. It is for this reason that the modern German name for the day of the week usually called after him was renamed Mittwoch, "Mid-Week," while Thor (German Donar) keeps his weekday name, Donnerstag. The original name survives in some German dialects as Wodenestag or Godensdach.28 However, even after Christian conversion he still retained his patronage over the ruling elite. All the Anglo-Saxon kings continued to claim descent from Woden,29 and in the English language he retains his weekday name, Wednesday (Woden's day). — Stephen E. Flowers

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time. — Chad Smith

Do Your Best, Let God Do The Rest — Norman Vincent Peale