Hannes Tiedemann Quotes & Sayings

It's like when you put instant rice pudding mix in a bowl in the microwave and push the button, and you take the cover off when it rings, and there you've got ricing pudding. I mean, what happens in between the time when you push the switch and when the microwave rings? You can't tell what's going on under the cover. Maybe the instant rice pudding first turns into macaroni gratin in the darkness when nobody's looking and only then turns back into rice pudding. We think it's only natural to get rice pudding after we put rice pudding mix in the microwave and the bell rings, but to me, that is just a presumption. I would be kind of relieved if, every once in a while, after you put rice pudding mix in the microwave and it rang and you opened the top, you got macaroni gratin. I suppose I'd be shocked, of course, but I don't know, I think I'd be kind of relieved too. Or at least I think I wouldn't be so upset, because that would feel, in some ways, a whole lot more real. — Haruki Murakami

Games are providing rewards that reality is not. — Jane McGonigal

You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced. — Rick Riordan

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. — Xenophanes

Let no man go beyond or defraud his brother, for, though it be hidden from man, it will be found that God is the avenger of all such. — Matthew Henry

Nothing easier. One step beyond the pole, you see, and the north wind becomes a south one. — Robert Peary

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful. — Lou Reed

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only. — Anais Nin

He will always know as we know now that in the heat of battle he did not fail when mateship and duty called. — Julia Gillard

Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give ye!"
He honestly thought it mattered. — Diana Gabaldon

An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going to knock it out of equilibrium. — Joan Robinson