Naville Numismatics Quotes & Sayings

I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous. — George Washington

Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious, and more infinite. — Frederick Lenz

Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do. — Marilyn Vos Savant

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur. — Lloyd Alexander

The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty. — Woody Allen

When I looked into her eyes, I could see forever — Harlan Coben

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospect; it has to be shattered before ascertained. — Vladimir Nabokov

I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated ... I was deeply impressed. — Saul Bellow

I wonder if there were any goths in gothic times. They're like: You look completely appropriate. You don't look stupid or lonely at all. — Demetri Martin

A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved. — Siddharth Katragadda

Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships. — Mariella Frostrup