Langenburg Schloss Quotes & Sayings

If a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets." Then he'd get up and leave. Or he'd write, "If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather." These were his ways of teaching me about how motivation affects perception. — Ram Dass

It is rather his mind has so wide a range, and so rich a retention, that he simply cannot understand that ordinary folk do not always follow him. 'I little imagined,' he said, 'that I should find you in the posture of Sir Isaac Newton.' Oh dear, I thought, here it comes again. What on earth was the meaning of *that*? So I just said No... and went fiddling with the oil-squirter, trying to remember things about Newton. — Beverley Nichols

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them. — Thomas Jefferson

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with. — Jean Paul Gaultier

I nod, trying not to look too hard at the food on his dish. The flakiness of the sugared crust, which reminds me of crystals on an edge of snow. The red-stained berries smeared across the plate, ripe and surely ful of taste. The words I've said cling to my mind like the pastry does to the heavy silver fork. — Ally Condie

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills - and as immortal. — James Branch Cabell

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home. — Noel Coward

There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns. — Paul Broun

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose. — Malcolm Forbes

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well. — Marjorie Holmes

Maybe you should get rid of me," I whisper onto his lips.
"Never," he says, kissing me once softly. "You're mine for as long as you breathe. — J.A. Redmerski

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. — Susan Griffin

I've always been a lover of classical music ever since I was an early teenager I suppose. I remember the very first piece of classical music that grabbed me was I bought an LP of Daniel Barenboim performing Mozart's piano concertos and I would have been about 14 or 15 at the time and I remember I played it over and over again. — George Brandis

It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around. — Maria Semple