Sinclaire Schaefer Quotes & Sayings

Never trust a woman's tears, Alexey Fyodorovitch. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We have the potential for making massive change ... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths of life forms on the Earth. — Anthony D. Barnosky

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other. — Emile Zola

There were other thinkers, Bowman also found, who held even more exotic views. They did not believe that really advanced beings would possess organic bodies at all. Sooner or later, as their scientific knowledge progressed, they would get rid of the fragile, disease-and-accident-prone homes that Nature had given them, and which doomed them to inevitable death. They would replace their natural bodies as they wore out - or perhaps even before that - by constructions of metal and plastic, and would thus achieve immortality. — Arthur C. Clarke

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel. — Eduard Hanslick

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino. — Hugh Laurie

Human beings are afflicted by a need to judge. — Carsten Jensen

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case. — Gary Hamel

The truth is, I'd lied to him. I loved the book. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever read. — Anonymous

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life. — William A. Drake