Hoppmann Columbia Quotes & Sayings

There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess. — George Steiner

In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle. — Jonathan Safran Foer

But you are a charming and beautiful dunces, madame. And," he continued in French, "a charming and beautiful woman
can get away with murder. Can you imagine that any man here would prosecute you for assassinating our language? — Loretta Chase

Nurture your
originality, don't ever bury it
away. — Alison G. Bailey

Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers. — Alexander The Great

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it. — Thiruvalluvar

My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice, sun, fear, and self are one. What is exhilarating is to extend this acute awareness into ordinary moments, in the moment-by-moment experiencing of the lammergeier and the wolf, which, finding themselves at the center of things, have no need for any secret of true being. In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us ... the present moment. The purpose of mediation practice is not enlightenment' it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. — Peter Matthiessen

A ship is safe in the harbour, but thats not what ships are built for. — N.a.

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. — Simon Cowell

They had also brought in a piece of human scrap so monstrous that everyone recoiled at the sight, that it shocked men who were no longer shockable. I shut my eyes; I had already seen far too much and I wanted to be able to forget eventually. This thing, this being, screamed in a corner like a maniac. The revulsion that turned our stomachs told us that it would be an act of generosity, a fraternal act, to finish him off. — Gabriel Chevallier

I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic. — Robert Blake

No, we will not tell our botany team to go fuck themslves. — Andy Weir

Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new. — John Varvatos