Nimsgernfuneral Quotes & Sayings

Only those who attempt the absurd ... will achieve the impossible. I think ... I think it's in my basement ... Let me go upstairs and check. — M.C. Escher

The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice ... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other. — William C. Bryant

The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus. — Sal Albanese

The good bodybuilders have the same mind ... that a sculptor has. If you analyze it, you look in the mirror and you say, okay, I need a bit more deltoids ... so that the proportion's right, and ... you exercise and put those deltoids on, whereas an artist would just slap on some clay on each side. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job. — Paul Auster

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is. — Mo Ibrahim

At Baalbek Nuts I bought pistachios from the Lebanese owners, who answered my request for their thoughts on the war with the typically Lebanese response of no problem. It's a lie, as we all knew. — Robert Fisk

No, I should have been more open." "I should have been more patient." "I should have proposed that night in your room." "I should have let you. — Kiera Cass

Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
"Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

He began to wonder with genuine concern just what sort of shithead the Pentagon had foisted on him. — Joseph Heller

It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults. — Auliq Ice

Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long. — Joan D. Chittister