Mortels Sheepskin Quotes & Sayings

The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren't the lords of the earth. — Cynthia Ozick

Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place. — William Blake

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him ... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.' — Don Henley

Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution. — Tony Attwood

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are. — Elvis Presley

As intuition grows, the need to make problems and see complications starts to dwindle. — Deepak Chopra

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it. — Mark Twain

Well, I'm rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven't apparently made them with a great love for what they're doing. — James Dyson

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time. — Lewis Black

Never postpone until tomorrow what you can postpone until the day after. — Raoul Wallenberg

Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society. — James Gleick

One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization. — Frederick Lenz

Could you achieve the possible without trying? Could you achieve the impossible if you refuse to stop trying? — Ron Kaufman

To Believe is something,and do not live it,is dishonest.. — Mahatma Gandhi

I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then I realized that they made it only look easy. Even the Berditchever Rebbe, revered as a man who could strike a rock and bring forth a stream, was continually honing his intentions. "Until I remove the thread of hatred from my heart," he said of his daily meditations, "I am, in my own eyes, as if I did not exist." — Marc Ian Barasch