Maelzel Quotes & Sayings

I'm not going to say that a very young Charlie Weber is without his indiscretions. But not anymore; I'm way past those days. — Charlie Weber

They can't denied who I am. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. — Boris Johnson

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. — Aleksandar Hemon

What simple and
ordinary lives we live,
underneath the shadows
of projection screen
artists — Phil Volatile

You Americans are a very singular people," he later recalled to one of his friends. "I went with my automaton all over my own country - the Germans wondered and said nothing. In France they exclaimed, Magnifique! Merveilleux! Superbe! The English set themselves to prove - one that it could be, and another that it could not be, a mere mechanism acting without a man inside. But I had not been long in your country, before a Yankee came to see me and said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like another thing like that? I can make you one for five hundred dollars.' I laughed at his proposition. A few months afterwards, the same Yankee came to see me again, and this time he said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like to buy another thing like that? I have one already made for you. — Tom Standage

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning. — Maria Bello

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters. — Henry Kravis

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle — Nikos Kazantzakis

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out. — David Fincher

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths. — Jean Cocteau

Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth. — Bradley Chicho