Jugendlichen Fruher Quotes & Sayings

Everything I see is something I haven't memorized. — John Cage

The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises. — Nick Harkaway

No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances. — Frank Arthur Swinnerton

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career. — DeForest Kelley

Martha had come up with the nickname Godbee by accident when she was younger than Lucy. Dorothy Boyle had been referred to as Grandma Boyle or Grandma B, for short, to distinguish her from Martha's other grandmother, Anne Hubbard. As a toddler, Martha couldn't pronounce Grandma B correctly, or had misheard it, and had, for as long as she could remember, called her favorite grandmother Godbee. For some reason, it had caught on. Not only with everyone in Martha's family, but with some of Godbee's friends and neighbors, too. — Kevin Henkes

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged. — Aimee Mann

One of the best ways to get promoted, besides sleeping with the right people, is to fail spectacularly. — Marshall Thornton

Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. — Ban Ki-moon

As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same. — Mason Cooley

When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn't any reclaiming it or revising it. — Gregory Maguire

Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It was that reader that she'd found in Mama's trunk. At the schoolhouse they had McGuffey, good lessons about good boys and girls. But Meggie had found the worn, faded book of fairy tales. They had been much more interesting than the stern admonitions of McGuffey. And her imagination had taken flight. Fanciful, that's what her father had called it. And when she'd read about Rapunzel, she'd decided that none of the local boys would ever do. A real prince was coming up the mountain for Meggie Best someday. She was sure of it. Unfortunately, this morning she'd thought that he'd arrived. — Pamela Morsi

Stella says older men make better lovers; with boys our age, she says, the ice cream melts once the cone's in your hand. — David Mitchell

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it. — Benjamin Carson

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. — Joyce Carol Oates