Eckelmann Brothers Quotes & Sayings

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies. — Joel Hodgson

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it ...
It wasn't only the sand drifts and the mud and the narrow, winding, broken roads up in the mountains. There was all that business at the frontier posts, all that haggling in the forest outside wooden huts that flew strange flags. I had to talk myself and my Peugeot past the men with guns
just to drive through bush and more bush. And then I had to talk even harder, and shed a few more bank notes and give away more of my tinned food, to get myself
and the Peugeot
out of the places I had talked us into.
Some of these palavers could take half a day ... — V.S. Naipaul

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well. — Eric Ries

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth ... the critic — Mel Brooks

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense. — Tabitha King

We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that. — Donald Rumsfeld

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans. — Mary E. Pearson

I wear the chains I forged in life. — Charles Dickens

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself. — Estelle

A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century. — P. J. O'Rourke

Every single negative can lead to a positive. Any negative situation ... don't get too down about it - you'll work it out. You learn it as you go along. You don't get smart at 17. You just don't unless you're one of a billion. it will happen over time and it's the getting there which will be the most fun. — Simon Cowell

I watch her, amazed how my body does what she tells it to without hesitation and it's in this moment I realize, Olivia isn't mine ... I'm hers. — Skyla Madi

Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I
had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy
for those who have triumphed in the melancholy
struggle for literary supremacy — Paul Bourget

To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret — Fela Kuti