Schmunzel Quotes & Sayings

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one. — Pat Boone

We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it. — C. G. Jung

The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989. — Philip French

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation. — Andrew Weil

Freedom brought a change in my song, made it soar, seeking out wonders and novelty. — Anthony Ryan

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have. — John Lee Hooker

a letter to her for? You have to put up with her every day." Papa was schmunzel — Markus Zusak

One travels to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. — Ella Maillart

It feels as though we're going in slow motion. I think we'll never get away. But eventually the Ferris wheel is far enough away that it could be a moving constellation. — Lauren DeStefano

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. — James Joyce

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture. — David Plotz

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation. — Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

A lot of money doesn't make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct. — Malcolm Forbes

An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate. — Steven Pinker