Kessels Bikes Quotes & Sayings

I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people. — Jean-Paul Sartre

That was the mark of genuine beauty. Not being beautiful oneself, but making everything around them beautiful. — Sean DeLauder

By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe ... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals. — Eric Hoffer

There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be. — Walter Duranty

Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow, the drummer relaxes in between shows with his cinnamon girl. — Neil Young

I just think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. If somebody walks in the room and they're drop-dead gorgeous and sexy, it's really fun to look at. But if someone is giving of their spirit and they make you laugh and feel good, that's a whole other level of beauty. — Drew Barrymore

I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money. — Brandon Routh

It was how she attacked everything. If she didn't finish before she got bored, she didn't finish. — C.D. Reiss

We must here follow the first course so as to be able to pass on later to generalisations which extend beyond the limits of Euclidean geometry. — Hermann Weyl

My father couldn't speak English when he went to the first grade and I had to work in a factory over Christmas and summer vacations. And I think that's the American way and one of the things that excites me about this race is that pretty much everything I've done I've started at the bottom and been able to finish at the top. — George Pataki

There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by institutional economists, lawyers, and administrators interested in formulating and implementing public policy. It has been the tendency of these groups to work almost as though the other did not exist. — Martin Shubik

I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a sign that said, Eat Me. — Ricky Williams

I'm not bad at singing - at least in the shower. — Sean Bean

We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial. — George Steiner

Springtime to me used to mean doing things - bicycling, fishing, canoeing. Now it seems more like the fulfillment of a divine promise. — Willem Lange