Knebel Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?
[Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?] — Ovid

I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if Matt Damon's character fell in love with a girl with a real butt?' They were like, 'Yeah sure, sure - here's your personal trainer.' — Franka Potente

Hey, let's try speed-starting the fire with an infusion of pure oxygen! Because inside every senior tech officer was a junior tech officer who'd been on a short leash for a long time. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The killing of mature members of any species leads to a reduction not only in biomass and species density and diversity but also in that species' accumulated knowledge of how to most efficiently fill its ecological niche and interact with the rest of the ecosystem around it. The accumulated wisdom of the species is severely reduced or, sometimes, even lost in the process. Thus the tremendous loss of human languages around the globe that were generated out of thousands of generations of human interaction with specific habitats by unique groups and which encode unique understandings of ecosystem functioning is a tragedy greater than we yet know. — Stephen Harrod Buhner

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn. — Barbra Streisand

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record. — Dan Fogelberg

Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are aiming at. Would it not be wiser to take it in?"
"Strike my colours!" cried the captain, "No sir, not I"... — Robert Louis Stevenson

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return. — Leigh Hunt

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine. — John Eldredge

May we continue to encourage one another, so that we will increase in strength and in wisdom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth ... Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin? — Rachilde

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. — Miguel De Cervantes