Shlemove Quotes & Sayings

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is basic equipment required: a headset, a Dictaphone to play the tapes that must be transcribed, and patience, a willingness to become a human conduit as the words of others enter through her ears, course through her veins, and drip out unseen through fast-moving fingertips. — Amy Rowland

...first, in order to remember, something must be forgotten; second, the place where memories are stored has no boundaries. In other words, forgetting is a twin; its tandem effect is best called "simultancous" distraction, the instant when one memory defoliates another. This fuzzy double - one devouring the other - presumably inhibits learning — Norman Klein

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth. — Charles Kettering

Impact people's lives positively — Sunday Adelaja

For every teenager I know, having a phone is a mixed blessing, because your parents can press a button and figure out where you are. — Daniel Handler

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought. — Cleopatra

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural. — Michala Petri

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it. — Calvin Coolidge

Trying to rely on the sheer good luck of avoiding bad outcomes indefinitely would simply guarantee that we would eventually fail without the means of recovering. — David Deutsch

Flattery is as important a machine as the lever, isn't it, Saxonberg? Give it a proper place to rest, and it can move the world. — E.L. Konigsburg

A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear. — Charles B. Rangel