Gudmundur And Geirfinnur Quotes & Sayings

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade. — Hugh Mackay

Rarely understanding how much shopkeepers and waiters were charging him, he paid for everything with fifty-or hundred-franc notes and came home with sagging pockets of change. — Geoff Dyer

I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate. — Iris Apfel

Without science, everything is a miracle. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Where the currency depreciation is a result of government inflation carried out by the issue of notes, it is possible to avert its disastrous effect on economic calculation by conducting all bookkeeping in a stable money instead. But so far as the depreciation is a depreciation of gold, the world money, there is no such easy way out. — Ludwig Von Mises

It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct. — Humphry Davy

Life is a wave of love in the ocean of humanity. — Debasish Mridha

Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world. — James Connolly

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little. — Sheila Kaye-Smith

The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that "where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. — Alan W. Watts