Jahrhundert Print Quotes & Sayings

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball. — Mickey Mantle

It is not the business of a Queen to be human. — Antal Szerb

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life. — Mahatma Gandhi

Life is untimely. — Christine M. Knight

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious. — Louis Althusser

We use up words like spiritual so fast in this culture. Twenty years ago spiritual had a distinct meaning. But now there's a lot of jack-off thinkers who just love to talk about the spiritual. And there is a lot of bogus - is bogosity a word? It should be - a lot of bogosity in these spiritual seekers. So you have to find another way to express it. I just call it how I fit. — George Carlin

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did. — Peter Shaffer

In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant. — Diane Setterfield

I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness. — Elmer Diktonius

I'd just bought a pistol and a silencer without even having to tell the guy my name. What a damned country. — Scott Pratt

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad — Sivananda

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women. — Hugo Claus

The great Caltech physicist Richard Feynman once observed that if you had to reduce scientific history to one important statement it would be: "All things are made of atoms. — Bill Bryson

And somewhere between his glassy infatuation for the one, and her growing fervor for the all, they'd found a shady place where two could huddle, grow, even feel nourished. — James Kahn