Klostermannova Quotes & Sayings

Get to know God by contemplating His attributes. — Maria Faustina Kowalska

An elegant mechanism emerges: a broken symmetry, hidden from our view by a field pervading space. — Sean Carroll

It takes more courage to be yourself than to live in the prison of ego with feelings of guilt. It takes a lot more courage to be happy than to be unhappy. — Human Angels

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways. — Bryce Courtenay

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered. — Mark Twain

A woman, if she hates her husband (and many of them do), can make life so sour and obnoxious to him that even death upon the gallows seems sweet by comparison. This hatred, of course, is often, and perhaps almost invariably, quite justified. To be the wife of an ordinary man, indeed, is an experience that must be very hard to bear. The hollowness and vanity of the fellow, his petty meanness and stupidity, his puling sentimentality and credulity, his bombastic air of a cock on a dunghill, his anaesthesia to all whispers and summonings of the spirit, above all, his loathsome clumsiness in amour - all these things must revolt any woman above the lowest. — H.L. Mencken

The franchisees are uniquely in touch at the local level. They see what's going on in their communities in a way we couldn't ever imagine. — Fred DeLuca

Unforgettable experiences are generally worth splurging on; unlike stuff, memories don't wear out (or take up space, get dusty, break, or get stolen). If you really want to go and work at an orangutan orphanage in Borneo, it will be worth the cash. — Rosie Blythe

Bad things happen wherever they get a mind to, but good things don't happen at all unless you go looking for them. — Olga Grushin

For you have been deluded by Saruman. Many of you have got death as the reward of your trust in him; but had you conquered, little better would your wages have been. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I only socialise with people that I have a lot in common with. — Jenny Eclair