Pirmann Chiro Quotes & Sayings

In summer the empire of insects spreads. — Adam Zagajewski

What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended. — Alexandre Dumas

How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you. — David J. Schwartz

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive. — Eric Schmidt

We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools. — Jon Porter

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure. — James Altucher

It is a burden ... (M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law."
- Susan Cooper ("Merriman" The Dark is Rising) — Susan Cooper

I have been right, Basil, haven't I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare's plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth. — Oscar Wilde

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual. — Rem Koolhaas

All these exquisitely schooled, sophisticated people, each and every one of whom feels special, are presented with two mainly horrible ways to earn a living: trawler fishing and aluminum smelting. — Michael Lewis

I don't understand the change of hair ... Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good. — Karl Lagerfeld

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles. — John McWhorter