Scheldestromen Quotes & Sayings

There were two sets of encyclopedias that had sections on rats. From them we learned that we were about the most hated animals on earth, except maybe snakes and germs.
That seemed strange to us, and unjust. [...] But people think we spread diseases, and I suppose possibly we do, though never intentionally, and surely we never spread as many diseases as people themselves do. — Robert C. O'Brien

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. — Thomas Browne

I am totally unattached to material items. — Zac Posen

Let us not think that because we are less brutal, less violent, less inhuman than our opponents we will carry the day. Brutality, violence and inhumanity have an immense prestige that schoolbooks hide from children, that grown men do not admit, but that everybody bows before. For the opposite virtues to have as much prestige, they must be actively and constantly put into practice. Anyone who is merely incapable of being as brutal, as violent and as inhuman as someone else but who does not practice the opposite virtues, is inferior to that person in both inner strength and prestige, and he will not hold out in such a confrontation.1
Simone Weil — Simone Weil

Personally, I find looking at all of the supporting materials and bring it all back to me - the people I worked with, the experience of working on a project - makes it come alive again. So, I try to put those experiences into my commentary for the viewers. — Michael Mann

Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program. — Adam Gopnik

But the best parts of him were in his books. I suppose I could always read those if I missed him too much. I haven't wanted to read one yet, though. — Gabrielle Zevin

Everything about this felt right, and I wondered what had happened to me--that I was somehow falling for this man who looked like he stepped off a catwalk, who had demons and sad eyes and kissed like an angel. — Megan Erickson

It ain't time to worry yet. I'll let you know when. — Harper Lee

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. — David O. McKay

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea. — William James

Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill. — Garrison Keillor