Pilderwasser Quotes & Sayings

( ... )on earth everything has a beginning and nothing has an end. — Lev Shestov

We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the world. What it's looking like increasingly is that the Web is connecting us back to ourselves. — Eli Pariser

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest. — Al Gore

Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science. — Wilhelm, Ostwald

But these things now belonged to the past, and he was flying toward the future. As they banked, Dr. Floyd could see below him a maze of buildings, then a great airstrip, then a broad, dead-straight scar across the flat Florida landscape - the multiple rails of a giant launching track. At its end, surrounded by vehicles and gantries, a spaceplane lay gleaming in a pool of light, being prepared for its leap to the stars. In a sudden failure of perspective, brought on by his swift changes of speed and height, it seemed to Floyd that he was looking down on a small silver moth, caught in the beam of a flashlight. — Arthur C. Clarke

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am. — Blake Anderson

Instead mention your Sixth Amendment right to a lawyer, and tell the police that you want a lawyer. — James Duane

One day when George III was insane he heard that the Americans never had afternoon tea. This mace him very obstinate and he invited them all to a compulsory tea-party at Boston: the Americans, however, started pouring the tea into Boston harbour and went on pouring things into Boston harbour until they were quite Independent, thus causing the United States. — W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good. — Zainab Salbi

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods. — Wendy Lesser

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them. — Thomas A. Edison

The pomps and glories which he despised were all his; what to most men is an ambition or a dream, to him was a round of weary tasks which nothing but the stern sense of duty could carry him through. And he did his work well. — Marcus Aurelius

I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values. — Malcolm-Jamal Warner