Nilssens Cumberland Quotes & Sayings

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. — Kin Hubbard

Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do ... — E. O. Wilson

Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion and lies, if not ambition. Also, fame was reductive. Everything that ended in fame and everything that issued from fame was inevitably diminished. Fame's message was unadorned. Fame and literature were irreconcilable enemies. — Roberto Bolano

No partner in a love relationship ... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. — May Sarton

I want to run until I can't run. — Bill Rodgers

Your outer world of attitudes, wealth, work, relationships and health will always be a reflection of your inner attitudes of mind. — Brian Tracy

I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of doing that. My music took off above the rest of those things: You can just make a song, put it on a CD, and get it out to all these people. — M.I.A.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels. — Orison Swett Marden

When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear. — John Otto

You have underwear."
"I'm glad you enjoyed it. Did you try it on?"
"Nah. Just rubbed it against my face. — Linda Howard

Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave
Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot;
Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit,
Where long ago a giant battle was;
And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass
In every place where infant Orpheus slept.
Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept
Into a sort of oneness, and our state
Is like a floating spirit's. But there are
Richer entanglements, enthralments far
More self-destroying, leading, by degrees,
To the chief intensity: the crown of these
Is made of love and friendship, and sits high
Upon the forehead of humanity. — John Keats

If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me. — Georges Bataille

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place. — Anne-Marie Duff

the breaking of the interest slavery of productive work in all professional fields will grant it the primary position due to it. Money will once again be returned to its sole appropriate role of being a servant in the enormous enterprise of our national economy. It will become once again what it is, an indication of performed work and therewith the way will be paved to a higher goal, the rejection of the frenzied financial greed of our age. — Gottfried Feder