Kortmann Quotes & Sayings

The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs. — Vito Fossella

Go mad I cannot: I maintain
The perilous outpost of the sane. — Herman Melville

Wish to deal with my most distinguished contemporaries, not personally or in a merely literary manner, but in relation to the real body of doctrine which they teach. I am not concerned with Mr. Rudyard Kipling as a vivid artist or a vigorous personality; I am concerned with him as a Heretic - that is to say, a man whose view of things has the hardihood to differ from mine. I am not concerned with Mr. Bernard Shaw as one of the most brilliant and one of the most honest men alive; I am concerned with him as a Heretic - that is to say, a man whose philosophy is quite solid, quite coherent, and quite wrong. — G.K. Chesterton

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. — Philip Pearlstein

Tree is a soldier, forest is an army! And let us wish that all the battles against this army is lost! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A journey of a thousand mile begins with a SMiLE — Bernard Kelvin Clive

You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe. — Bob Dylan

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them. — Wolfgang Ketterle

Confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which the plane fell, the routine errand that ended on the shoulder with the car in flames, the swings where the children were playing as usual when the rattlesnake struck from the ivy. — Joan Didion

For basic survival, as for evolution, we have to accept the past as the creator of the present, influence the future, and act in the present. — Daniel Egger

He is so beautiful, she thought, aching from the sadness that she saw in his eyes. In the late-afternoon sunlight, those eyes were almost green. She took his face in her hands and pulled him to her, claiming the kiss she had so desperately wanted the day before but had forgotten in the heat of the moment. She closed her eyes and felt him respond to her mouth, his tongue seeking hers. — Shira Anthony