Ludvig Nobel Quotes & Sayings

I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown. — Wendell Berry

I know a man who drives 600 yards to work. I know a woman who gets in her car to go a quarter of a mile to a college gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then complains passionately about the difficulty of finding a parking space. When I asked her once why she didn't walk to the gym and do five minutes less on the treadmill, she looked at me as if I were being willfully provocative. 'Because I have a program for the treadmill,' she explained. 'It records my distance and speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.' It hadn't occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this regard. — Bill Bryson

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping. — Andrew Miller

I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up, I improvise initially, never questioning it too closely. — Robert Klein

It took a month for the gestalt of drugs and tension he moved through to turn those perpetually startled eyes into wells of reflexive need. He'd watched her personality fragment, calving like an iceberg, splinters drifting away, and finally he'd seen the raw need, the hungry armature of addiction. — William Gibson

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited. — Neil Armstrong

Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught. — Arthur W. Pink

God loves us. May we discover the beauty of loving and being loved. — Pope Francis

Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body - Need a body cry? — Robert Burns

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born. — Rumer Godden

Life is a journey, but it's not about the places along the way, it's about the people that give you a piece of themselves. — Stavro Nashi

If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children. — T.D. Jakes

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means. — Tom Robbins