Norddeutscher Lloyd Quotes & Sayings

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time. — Alfred Marshall

she gathered a leftover dish of pasta (unheated), a napkin, a glass of ice water, and a loaf of half-eaten French bread into the family room. She bumbled through the large room, past a few opened and unopened boxes, setting down her dinner atop a pair of stacked boxes near the couch. She flailed her body down onto the couch, her long, slender arms reaching out to grab the water and the pasta, when she realized she had forgotten a fork. — Joshua Wright

I pack every minute I can with something to do. — Bryan Adams

Mr. Crepsley "What are you doing?"
Darren "Looking for fangs."
Mr. Crepsley "We do not grow fangs, you ass! — Darren Shan

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster. — Jean Nouvel

Atemi accounts for 99% of Aikido. — Morihei Ueshiba

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure. — Joel Robuchon

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of. — Bernie Mac

Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be ... when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. — Arthur Miller

A falling drop at last will carve a stone. — Lucretius

It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods. — Jean-Paul Sartre

My good man, could we have one deadly issue to deal with at a time? — Jenny Colgan

The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it. — Tony Kushner

Then he looked at her.
That connection again. It seemed to be drawing them together-an almost physical feeling of attraction. It was exciting, but scary.
Eric got up very slowly and crossed the room. He sat by Thea. Neither of them looked away.
And then things just seemed to happen by themselves. Their fingers were intertwined. Thea was looking up and he was looking down. They were so close that their breath mingled. Thea shivered with the electricity.
Everything seemed wrapped in a golden haze. — L.J.Smith

Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does. — W. Edwards Deming