Schmierig Quotes & Sayings

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The rotten apple spoils his companions. — Benjamin Franklin

I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors. — Ellsworth Kelly

If what we're doing is good, why does it smell so lancingly bad? On the ramp at night, why do we feel the ungainsayable need to get so brutishly drunk? Why did we make the meadow churn and spit? The flies as fat as blackberries, the vermin, the diseases, ach, scheusslich, schmierig - why? Why do rats fetch 5 bread rations per cob? Why did the lunatics, and only the lunatics, seem to like it here? Why, here, do conception and gestation promise not new life but certain death for both woman and child? Ach, why all der Dreck, der Sumpf, der Schleim? Why do we turn the snow brown? Why do we do that? Make the snow look like the shit of angels. Why do we do that? — Martin Amis

If you always tell people why, they'll understand it better, they'll consider it more important, and they'll be more likely to comply. — Charlie Munger

Inspiration is the key to our evolution. — Eddie Pena

David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him. — Moby

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up. — Ryan Lochte

I know he sees it, because for the briefest moment he drops his expressionless mask and the look in his eyes shows me he feels the same way. A mirror of every part of myself I can't bear to face. — Sara Raasch

No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose. — Stacey Kade