Scheuchzer Quotes & Sayings

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now? — David Mamet

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't. — Lin Biao

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read. — Earl Nightingale

Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper. — Gary Speed

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing. — James Newman

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. — Leonard Bernstein

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes. — George Carlin

Around him, the room was redolent of the unknown herb he'd found, green and fresh and yet somehow familiar, like something he hadn't known he had liked until it had appeared, suddenly and unexpectedly, in his life. — Hanya Yanagihara

The Greek is importantly different: "Jesus said to her, 'Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, "I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God — John Dominic Crossan

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. — Andy Rooney

If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World. — John Pilger