Peterhans Schibli Quotes & Sayings

You do this, perhaps, with a good intention,' said the Cardinal, 'but, in my opinion, it were wiser in you, and perhaps better for you, not to engage in so ridiculous a contest with a Fool.' — Thomas More

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. — Michael Pollan

It is much easier to die than to bear a life of misery with fortitude. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ruby's tenth birthday party. She wore a red dress and we skated and she told me we were halfway to twenty and someday we would go to France. — Catherine Lacey

I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community heads of government that they could move ahead to the social chapter but not within the Treaty and without Britain's participation. It sets a vital precedent, for an enlarged Community can only function if we build in flexibility of that kind. John Major deserves high praise for ensuring at Maastricht that we would not have either a single currency or the absurd provisions of the social chapter forced upon us: our industry, workforce and national prosperity will benefit as a result. — Margaret Thatcher

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. — John Kennedy Toole

Tears released poisons from inside, poisons which if not released could be as deadly as the real kind. The — Tom Clancy

Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good. — Reese Witherspoon

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising," announced Lord Peter sententiously, "is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Someone who works only for the money will give you trouble one day because of money. — Jin Sun Mi

I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth. — Cobie Smulders

When we peer into the distance some of the galaxies we see may simply be reflections, ghost images created by rebounded light. — Bill Bryson

Bugis Street, once famous for its transvestite prostitutes - the sort of place where one could have imagined Noel Coward, ripped on opium, cocaine and the local tailoring, just off his rickshaw for a night of high buggery - had, when it proved difficult to suppress, a subway station dropped on top of it. — William Gibson