Neuman Quotes & Sayings

But isn't that what love is, the old man said, being happy to stay? — Andres Neuman

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip. — Lao-Tzu

Well, this is how I see it - every tune tells a tale, nearly always a sad one. When I turn the handle I imagine I'm the hero of that tale and I try to feel at one with its melody. But at the same time it's as if I'm pretending, do you see? — Andres Neuman

When I was young I was a night owl, I liked doing things while everyone was asleep, I felt untouchable, as you get older you become a lark, you start to worry about being late for things, night owls think they're stealing a march on everything, but the moment they wake up they're already running late, since I got sick I don't like the morning so much, it's, I don't know, too loaded with expectations, and the silence of the night scares me, I prefer the afternoon now, it's less demanding, so I'm watching the sun go down, and I start to wonder, you see, where, where the hell does beauty comes from?, — Andres Neuman

When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes. — Joan Van Ark

I wonder whether, perhaps without realizing it, we seek out the books we need to read. Or whether books themselves, which are intelligent entities, detect their readers and catch their eye. In the end, every book is the I Ching. You pick it up, open it, and there it is, there you are. — Andres Neuman

It's the same with books, you see mounds of them in bookshops and you want to read them all, or at least to have a taste of them. You think you could be missing out on something important, you see them and they intrigue you, they tempt you, they tell you how insignificant your life is and how tremendous it could be. — Andres Neuman

Packing a bag doesn't make you aware of changes, rather it compels you to postpone the past, and the present is taken up with concerns about the immediate. Time slides over the travelers' skin. — Andres Neuman

He who laughs last ... just didn't get the joke. — Carroll Bryant

Women who know what they want never want anything interesting. — Andres Neuman

Companionship isn't about experiencing the great moments together. True companionship is the other stuff. Sharing a sincere doing nothing. — Andres Neuman

When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
[as quoted by Alfred E Neuman] — Lou Holtz

I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations. — Bernie Mac

History shows that people are as changeable as rivers. — Andres Neuman

These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand. — George Lois

I politely suggested she drive off a cliff. — Michelle Hodkin

American leadership is essential. — Hillary Clinton

Bringing up a child and caring for a sick person have this in common: both require an energy that is not really yours. You are instilled with it by them, by their eager love, their expectant fear. And they clamor for it as though scenting fresh meat. I sometimes feel that motherhood is a black hole. Whatever you put in is never enough, and you've no idea where it goes. At other times, though, I feel like a vampire feeding off her own child. Devouring his enthusiasm in order to carry on believing in life. — Andres Neuman

Because Muhammad is considered Allah's final prophet and the Quran the eternal, unalterable words of Allah himself, there is also no evolving morality that permits the modification or integration of Islamic morality with that from other sources. The entire Islamic moral universe devolves solely from the life and teachings of Muhammad. — Jake Neuman

Perhaps farewells create new territories, or they send us back to the only territory that truly belongs to us, that of solitude. — Andres Neuman

Life is affected, even controlled by how thoughts are communicated in both words and actions. — Steven Redhead

You go from having fun doing something to having it become your life without you realizing it. It can be weird and dark, but every single time I have a dark thought that makes me think dark about that, I tell myself, "Stop, you're stupid. This is great." — Nicolas Jaar

Everything good is on the highway. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know how long it will all last either, and for now I don't care. Today it is thus, we both agree, and with you it is always today. — Andres Neuman

To be commanded by one so very young," she said, "is to feel one's helplessness. — A.N. Roquelaure

We lose the fear of letting go of our baggage, but also the certainty that what is in them belongs to us. — Andres Neuman

(Places are constantly changing, haven't you noticed the branches, the river?) No one notices those things, ... everyone walks around without seeing, they become accustomed, accustomed to their houses, their jobs, their loved ones, and in the end they convince themselves that this is their life, there can be no other, it's just a habit. — Andres Neuman

It's a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn't laugh. — Andres Neuman

And I couldn't help wondering where the hell the fatherland was, what exactly were we fighting for? Did I find out? Ah, that's a good point. It may sound strange, but from talking to the other militiamen I realised it was our childhood memories we were fighting for. — Andres Neuman

When I was young, because I was young once like you, I heard many organ grinders play, and I can assure you no two tunes ever sounded the same, even on the same instrument. That's how it is, isn't it? The less love you put into things the more they resemble one another. The same goes for stories, everyone knows them by heart, but when someone tells them with love, I don't know, they seem new. — Andres Neuman

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine. — Beth Broderick

Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language together. — Andres Neuman