Hoelscher Accumulator Quotes & Sayings

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. — Eric Allin Cornell

Lessons are not given, they are taken. — Cesare Pavese

A candle that lights another no longer has to work twice as hard to illuminate a room. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When you're going off to Iraq, your horizons become more short term. — Mark Lippert

We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete. — Brian Roberts

Movies were America's way of softening up the rest of the world, Hollywood relentlessly assaulting the mental defenses of audiences with the hit, the smash, the spectacle, the blockbuster, and, yes, even the box office bomb. It mattered not what story these audiences watched. The point was that it was the American story they watched and loved, up until the day that they themselves might be bombed by the planes they had seen in American movies. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global — Marilynne Robinson

Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience. — Henry Eyring

I have fought my fight, I have lived my life,
I have drunk my share of wine;
From Trier to Coln there was never a knight
Led a merrier life than mine. — Charles Kingsley

The thought came back to him, as it often did: To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life and the life of other men to save it, to give it all back to them as soon as the battle was won ... it was unheard of, but that was exactly what Walker Hancock and the other Monuments Men intended to do. — Robert M. Edsel

It's hard not to feel guilty when starving people bring you food. — Liesl Shurtliff

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. — Franz Kafka

I always idolized guys like Deion Sanders, Barry Sanders, Steve Young and the entire 49ers team, really. I was a huge 49ers fan growing up. — Reggie Bush

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated. — Kathy Ireland

Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle; it's a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love. — Isabel Allende