Schnibben Quotes & Sayings

If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations. — Jane Yolen

It's during a storm that the best songs get written. — Marty Rubin

The fashion system has killed fashion. — Domenico Dolce

[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers]
A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times - you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you. — Jack London

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining. — Thomas Carlyle

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. — Walt Whitman

If you say, 'I really love this girl except for this one thing--if I could just change this one thing, then everything would be perfect,' then you've already lost her. — Michael Tucker

There is no point winning the semi if you don't win the final. It's as simple as that. No one will remember a big semifinal if you lose the final, so you have to do it all again. — Brian O'Driscoll

I am not a fool. — Maria V. Snyder

There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means of methods which should be adapted to the circumstances. — Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen

What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other art forms, most notably, the European novel and certain forms on English drama, and indeed, in relation to my rather academic interest in history
not "history" in the normal sense, but history as a form of entertainment . It might be a very unfashionable view but I believe that history is an amazing bank or reserve area of plots, characterisations, extraordinary events, etc. — Peter Greenaway

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15. — Brigitte Bardot

It seems that the uglier the stock, the better the return, even when the valuations are comparable. — Tobias E. Carlisle