Saxon Switzerland Quotes & Sayings

Food is a wonderful source of pleasure - but it will get you into trouble if it's the only source of pleasure you have in your life. — Linda Bacon

All night the dreamer travels in this region and doesn't realize he's asleep. The differences between the logic of that world and the logic of this waking one are vast. But they feel the same. And isn't that how we recognize logic, by the way it feels? — Denis Johnson

The believers who say they are praying for me are victims of a lie and think they are doing something good; I let them know they are not. I tell them to imagine I had a newfangled gun that forcibly turned religious people into atheists. I tell them the gun didn't really work, but I thought it did. Let's say I decided to force them to be atheists, so I pointed the atheist gun at them and pulled the trigger. Would they think that was a nice thing to do? Would they appreciate my effort, or would they feel assaulted? When you pray for me, you are asking your god to change me. You are asking your god to forcibly enter my life and my brain and change my way of thinking (using euphemisms such as asking God to "open my heart to Jesus" is evidence of the intent of the assault). — David Silverman

For the various necessaries of life are not easily carried about, and hence men agreed to employ in their dealings with each other something which was intrinsically useful and easily applicable to the purposes of life, for example, iron, silver, and the like. Of this the value was at first measured by size and weight, but in process of time they put a stamp upon it, to save the trouble of weighing and to mark the value. — Aristotle.

Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on-it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm not a machine. — Thierry Henry

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that. — Jaclyn Smith

Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class. — Kevin O'Leary

Understand your audience and you will understand the impact of your message on each follower in your social media networks. — Matt Gentile

I needed paper. I couldn't think without writing my thoughts down. — Maggie Stiefvater

The number of calls from you on my phone is zero. The number of calls from me to you is one. When you hear the voicemail, I hope you don't hear the desperation in the way I wish you all the luck in the world and tell you how pleased I am for you. I hope you don't hear the way my lungs breathe 'iloveyouineedyoupleasedontgo' every time I draw in a breath. — Nikita Gill

Richard knows a bar that's open until two and they go off in search of it, the two girls tottering on their heels and swaying against the men, who seem all too happy to support them. — Christina Baker Kline

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet. — Erich Hoeber

With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes. — Melissa Rosenberg