Schmidheiny Asbestos Quotes & Sayings

The madness of writing was the antidote to true madness. — Hanif Kureishi

Changing my name was traumatic for me. — Eve Best

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down. — Al Pacino

I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous researches. Disgusted at my want of success, I went away to spend a few days at the seaside, and thought of entirely different things. One day, as I was walking on the cliff, the idea came to me, again with the same characteristics of conciseness, suddenness, and immediate certainty, that arithmetical transformations of indefinite ternary quadratic forms are identical with those of non-Euclidian geometry. — Henri Poincare

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that. — Anthony Hopkins

Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby. — Gloria Steinem

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of. — George Eliot

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. — Mark Twain

I don't know anyone else who hangs pictures of their office in their home. — Topher Donahue

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. — George Saunders