Langenbach Fine Quotes & Sayings

I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true ... If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you'll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That's not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons. — Lisa Randall

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure, it's a little like making love, the physical act of love. — Francis Bacon

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children. — Marian Wright Edelman

It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station; whether it be that apparent superiority incites great designs, and great designs are naturally liable to fatal miscarriages; or that the general lot of mankind is misery, and the misfortunes of those whose eminence drew upon them an universal attention, have been more carefully recorded, because they were more generally observed, and have in reality only been more conspicuous than others, not more frequent, or more severe. — Samuel Johnson

No excuses; those were just weak. — Abbi Glines

Only free men can negotiate,prisoners can't enter in contracts — Nelson Mandela

You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor. — Alice Englert

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth. — James A. Michener

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story. — P.T. Barnum

One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy. — Yukimi Nagano

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back. — Hugh Laurie

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me. — Richard Lamm

She pressed the plunger down hard, in hope and without regret ... Krystal Weedon had achieved her only ambition: she had joined her brother where nobody could part them. — J.K. Rowling