Elsebeth Baumgartner Quotes & Sayings

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn. — Nick Johnson

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. — Steven Wright

For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they're around mirrors. — Helen Oyeyemi

For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event."
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"Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden — Karen Hawkins

You can never forget the ones that made you feel. — N.R. Hart

In our rapid and externalized world, language has become ghostlike, abbreviated to code and label. Words that would mirror the soul carry the loam of substance and the shadow of the divine. The sense of silence and darkness behind the words in more ancient cultures, particularly in folk culture, is absent in the modern use of language. Language is full of acronyms; nowadays we are impatient of words that carry with them histories and associations. — John O'Donohue

When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradicts science on matters of fact, religion must yield. — Frank Wilczek

To me, the word wisdom means ancient knowledge.
It's the kind of knowledge you not only see but feel when you look into the eyes of an elephant or stop for a moment to marvel at the deep wrinkles on its skin, both of which I believe contain the truths learned from each intentional step their feet and those of their ancestors have placed upon the earth. — Molly Friedenfeld

There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy. — Wilhelm Rontgen

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band. — Dan Fogelberg

There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Do what most people Won't, so you can have what most people Don't. — Itzik Amiel

The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly. — Nigel Cole

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice. — Ambrose Bierce