Schleissheim Quotes & Sayings

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age? — Helene Hanff

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one. — Laurence Sterne

A jaw like a mastiff's, a frame like a giant's, eyes like two daggers, a smile like a tiger's snarl,"Bernard murmured.

"Aye, he is all that!!" Master Herbert said."A murrain be on him! And when I came to him,what did I do? I did bow in all politeness, yet stiffly withal to show him I'd not brook his surliness."

"I did hear ye did bow so low that your head came below your knees,"Bernard said. — Georgette Heyer

Easy in but not easily out, as the lobster said in the lobster pot! — C.S. Lewis

I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life. — David Sanborn

Spiritual empowerment is evidenced in our lives by our willingness to tell ourselves the truth, to listen to the truth when it's told to us, and to dispense truth as lovingly as possible, when we feel compelled to talk from the heart. — Christina Baldwin

A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it. — G.K. Chesterton

Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion ... — Dalai Lama

In Scotland, I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America, I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy. — Gerard Butler

It's not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It's the good ones. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol. — Suzanne Collins

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe. — Mark Twain

Pure data. You don't believe data - you test data." He grimaced. "If I could put my finger on the moment we genuinely fucked ourselves, it was the moment we decided that data was something you could use words like believe or disbelieve around. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage. — Patty Loveless