Quadernetze Quotes & Sayings

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years. — Pete Sampras

I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it. — Elvis Presley

When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

I'm able to see humor in a lot of things. — Juliana Hatfield

The world is like a great big overcoat, and it needs pockets of various shapes and sizes. — Haruki Murakami

Reason is the Devil's harlot, who can do nought but slander and harm whatever God says and does. - MARTIN LUTHER — Christopher Hitchens

I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one. — Mike Birbiglia

The only way to measure our progress is to read about what this country used to be. — Roger Lea MacBride

You can't land on the moon and say, Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam! — Eddie Izzard

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything. — Erol Alkan

It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes ... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity. — Margaret Mead