Gunter Netzer Quotes & Sayings

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. — Thomas Jefferson

While praying I passed into a state of entrancement, and in that state I saw the angel and the plates. — Martin Harris

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different. — Julian Baggini

Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature. — Ilona Andrews

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart. — Edward Abbey

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. — Thomas Jefferson

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. — John McPhee

President Oliver, stop staring at my sister and get on the float before I assassinate your butt! Ginnie yells. — Lindsey Leavitt

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. An Irishman, seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for granted that I was calculating my wages. If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for - business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not. — Anna Kendrick

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me. — Alexander McQueen

You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not so ... You would expect that proofreaders and copy editors would pick this sort of stuff up even if the writers of such embarrassing English do not, but many of them seem as illiterate as the writers they are trying to bail out. — Stephen King