Schniefelig Quotes & Sayings

He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity. — Christopher Moore

Men changed during wars or conflict, sometimes beyond recognition. Tai — Guy Gavriel Kay

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas. — G.H. Hardy

German navy had its own tradition of assigning nicknames. One very tall commander was nicknamed Seestiefel, or sea boot. Another had a reputation for smelling bad and thus was nicknamed Hein Schniefelig, or stinky person. A third was said to be "very childish and good-natured" and was commonly called Das Kind, the child. — Erik Larson

I suppose all our lives must be at the end of a long chain of improbable coincidences, — Bill Bryson

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy. — Lester Bowie

In the dream I was onstage and there were thousands of you goin' bananas for me, all laughing and clapping, celebrating your brains out, not because I was somethin' else up there, but because you were just so happy I was finally starting to get it. — Buddy Wakefield

Will I see you again?"
I turned to him and I shrugged. "If what we feel is real, then yes I have no doubt we will. — Rachel Rise

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked. — Roger Hilsman

Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of the world, even though these goods are not false or intrinsically unsatisfactory ... Desire shatters the economy of things; it disputes the tyranny of objects. IT longs for the great emptiness, which is beauty and love without limitation. — Wendy Farley

The only pressure I feel is what I put on myself. — Andy Roddick