M Hldorfer Wochenblatt Quotes & Sayings

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger. — Fantasia Barrino

Yesterday, when we were packing, Julius asked me,
"If you could rub Tulip out of your past life, would you do it?"
And I had to shake my head. I can't regret the times we had together. Sometimes I worry I won't have times like that again, that there will be no lit nights, no incandescent days. But I know it's not true. There can be colour in a million ways. I know I'll find it on my own. — Anne Fine

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at. — Richard Pryor

You speak like a heroine,' said Montoni, contemptuously; 'we shall see if you can suffer like one. — Ann Radcliffe

We take things on a little at a time because all at once they'd kill — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him? — Zhuangzi

The two-point rhythm of walking's stride clears the mind for thinking. (N.B.: Perhaps, after telling the spinal circuits to "take a walk," the forebrain shifts to automatic pilot, so to speak, freeing the neocortex to ponder important issues of the day.) Many philosophers were lifetime walkers, who found that bipedal rhythms facilitated creative contemplation and thought. In his short life, e.g., Henry David Thoreau walked an estimated 250,000 miles--ten times the circumference of earth. — David B. Givens

I am a die-hard Red Sox fan, and yes, I dated a Yankee fan. I know I should be kicked out of The Nation for that, but I couldn't help it. He was way too charming back then. — Monica Alexander

We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated form those qualities in which we personally, or our societies more generally, are deficient. We respect a style which can move us away from what we fear and towards what we crave: a style which carries the correct dosage of our missing virtues. — Alain De Botton

How can you get very far,
If you don't know who you are?
How can you do what you ought,
If you don't know what you've got?
And if you don't know which to do
Of all the things in front of you,
Then what you'll have when you are through
Is just a mess without a clue
Of all the best that can come true
If you know What and Which and Who. — Benjamin Hoff

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own. — Michel De Montaigne

Like a flower, be soft, loving, kind, and beautiful, but never lose the courage to bloom. — Debasish Mridha

to defeat pain he had to separate it from time, its most useful ally. — Mark Helprin

I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two. — Olivia Hussey