Gotthold Lessing Famous Quotes & Sayings

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options ... — Peter Greenaway

I have vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it, i would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the Brompton Cocktail some helpful medic could supply. And with Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with death. — Terry Pratchett

Why did she want to go to sea and live the rough unglamorous life of a seaman? 'Because they told me Negro women couldn't get in the union. You know what I told them?' I shook my head, although I nearly knew. 'I told them, "You want to bet?" I'll put my foot in that door up to my hip until women of every color can walk over my foot, get in that union, get aboard a ship and go to sea. — Maya Angelou

God knows what He's doing, — Jeannette Walls

Sometimes you do know, in 'Commando' when I said 'I lied', I knew that it was going to be a funny line. I've never had a bad line. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it. — Simeon Denis Poisson

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere. — George Burns

Knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys. — Malcolm Gladwell

The game of life has one rule: if you play, you lose. — Swami Chetanananda

I know this song!'
Rosie laughed.
'If you didn't, that'd be the final proof that you're from Mars. — Graeme Simsion