Drechseln Quotes & Sayings

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. — Martin Cruz Smith

There has been so much action in the past," said D.H. Lawrence, "especially sexual action, a wearying repetition over and over, without a corresponding thought, a corresponding realization. Now our business is to realize sex. Today the full conscious realization of sex is even more important than the act itself. — Michel Foucault

On the equator, where centrifugal forces are greatest, a 150-pound person will be a slender 149 pounds 14 ounces. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

If you don't have an auto industry, you will not be secure as a nation because you won't have a backbone like manufacturing to be able to put people to work in producing the means to you keep you secure. — Jennifer Granholm

My daddy once told me that some of the most miserable people he ever knew were the ones that finally got what they'd always wanted. — Cormac McCarthy

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. — Bill Moyers

As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it. — Shinichi Suzuki

Genius or jock, it didn't seem to matter. Boys were born with a gene that kept girls, no matter how smart they might be, from understanding them. — Charity Tahmaseb

My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, 'Don't harm, and do help.' And now the question is, 'Can creatures like chickens and cows be harmed?' And the answer is, 'Of course they can.' Consequently, I think it's immoral to harm them. And that seems to me to provide a very strong moral reason to be vegetarian, to not wear leather ... it seems to me that our treatment of animals is morally appalling ... and that we ought to radically revise the way we live, precisely because they feel pain, they can be hurt, and we're constantly hurting these creatures! — Shelly Kagan

As a couple, you will have to go through life's various struggles. But in the end everything will pass. And if it doesn't, it's not the end. — Sudeep Nagarkar

Without the idea of suicide I would have surely killed myself. — Emil Cioran

And humanism - that transcendent vision that spans centuries and religions in its celebration of reason, responsibility, art, and examined lives - has been tossed out like old bathwater, leaving humanity naked and shivering on the dirty ground. He — Jean Hegland