Schuler Quotes & Sayings

Please lift your snowy skies
off my soul -
Your diamond dreams
slice through my veins — Else Lasker-Schuler

It was the uniform of a time and place, of a nearly extinct species - the belligerent middle-American redneck who had fought in Korea, come back with his faith unshaken, and then watched the 1960s unfold the way he might watch his house burn down. There had never been any Summer of Love for Arthur Schuler. He had no interest in Civil Rights, hippies or liberals - or Democrats for that matter. I heard him say once that it might have worked out very well if we had indeed brought all the planes back from Vietnam, just in time to napalm the Woodstock festival. But the man had lived. He had been an orphan of the Great Depression and seen the country and the world. He had made his way, been a barroom fighter and - he hinted - a womanizer at some distant point in the twentieth century, and had come away with an instinct for life, for the things that people do and their base and predictable motivations. We — Matthew Louis

So if you add it all up, weight workouts give you two, and possibly three, important advantages over endurance exercise: 1. The afterburn, which might be an extra 50 calories. 2. A higher percentage of fat calories used for energy after the workout. 3. A possible increase in resting metabolic rate, in the neighborhood of 50 calories a day. — Lou Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us. — Barry Schuler

It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour? — Jim Butcher

Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance? — Candace Schuler

We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over. — Barry Schuler

Roxanne Archer designed her strategy like a four-star general - or a stalker. — Candace Schuler

I'm an extremist. Either I'm being healthy and organic, or I want a big, juicy In-N-Out burger, I want it all now! It sure makes me happy. — Paula Patton

If you use a standard called "biological value" to rate protein sources ... soy finishes far below eggs, milk, fish, beef and chicken. The food with the highest biological value ever measured is whey protein ... — Lou Schuler

Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals. — Michael Bennet

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. — Barry Schuler

The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less than the diagnosis and cure of the human malady. We follow twelve generations of New York City's Steenwycks family through their forays into phrenology, mesmerism, radium therapy and similar misadventures, a historically rich narrative that Menger-Anderson delivers in striking, elegant prose and with a sure eye for detail. This is a remarkable debut by a writer to watch. — Ben Fountain

Protein is to diets what black is to fashion: it makes everyone thinner. — Lou Schuler

A true poet does not say 'azure'; a true poet says 'blue. — Else Lasker-Schuler

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it. — Barry Schuler

My love for you is the sole image / Of God a human is allowed. — Else Lasker-Schuler

You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake. — Jodi Picoult

When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first ... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed ... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious. — Alan Turing

Living in your genome is the history of our species. — Barry Schuler

the goal is to get old without getting feeble. — Lou Schuler

A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another human being is saying that a woman's rights are superior to human rights. She has put herself above the human race, she has made herself the executor over life and death. Is that a woman's right? — Janet E. Smith

Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave. — Else Lasker-Schuler

I would walk the way and accept the risks I have counted, rather accepting my failure. — M.F. Moonzajer

Success in many of life's most important endeavors begins with a commitment to act like the person you hope to become. — Lou Schuler

When you are down to nothing, God is up to somethng. It is up to you to reach out to find what God is up to for you. — Robert Schuler

At home I have a blue piano.
But I can't play a note.
It's been in the shadow of the cellar door
Ever since the world went rotten.
Four starry hands play harmonies,
The Woman in the Moon sang in her boat.
Now only rats dance to the clanks.
The keyboard is in bits.
I wept for what is blue. Is dead.
Sweet angels, I have eaten
Such bitter bread. Push open
The door of heaven. For me, for now-
Although I am still alive-
Although it is not allowed — Else Lasker-Schuler

My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home. — Else Lasker-Schuler

Moderate alcohol consumption is linked to a long list of health benefits. We'll leave it to others to decide if those health benefits come from the alcohol itself or the fact that moderate drinkers tend to do lots of things moderately, and are more likely to have the education and socioeconomic status linked to good health. — Lou Schuler