Melankolikus Quotes & Sayings

In seventeenth-century England, 150 out of every 1,000 newborns died during their first year, and a third of all children were dead before they reached fifteen.9 Today, only five out of 1,000 English babies die during their first year, and only seven out of 1,000 die before age fifteen.10 — Yuval Noah Harari

The hemlock tree is named spruce-pine, while spruce is he-balsam, balsam itself is she-balsam, laurel is ivy, and rhododendron is laurel. — Horace Kephart

Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs. — Alex Berenson

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team. — Marla Maples

Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe. — Dario Fo

On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children's children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo. — William Howard Taft

I'm starting to think being a grown-up isn't going to school or even paying your own rent. It's learning to fake it when you got no other choice. — Amy Lane

My best friend Jerry started a boat-washing business, and it was one of the most critical experiences of my life. I got to meet a lot of people who were entrepreneurs. My parents were schoolteachers, and I was now meeting people who owned companies. I realized that if this guy can do it, why can't I? — Bill Rancic

Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there. — Carol Leifer

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones. — Brian Eno

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. — Marilyn Hacker

Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know. — Gary Webb

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person. — Aristotle.

Just the sounds of an old building settling, I tell myself . . . but I wonder. — Stephen King