Sommerende Quotes & Sayings

The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level. — George Sarton

There is a reality in blessing, which I take baptism to be, primarily. It doesn't enhance sacredness, but it acknowledges it, and there is a power in that. — Marilynne Robinson

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent. — John Hughes

Awesome day my Friend a Positive Mind is Everything on the way to Happiness.
Jan Jansen — Jan Jansen

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power. — William Hazlitt

What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft. — Maury Yeston

She was walking toward the house as happy and stupid as I'd ever seen her. She might as well be shitting rainbows from the look on her face. — Donna Augustine

I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on. — Elizabeth Scott

The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy. — Walter Scott

We are on God's side. This is not a war between Arabs and Jews. It's a war between God and the devil. — Benny Hinn

We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.' — Robert Winston

I can give myself to her
In her dreams
Whispering her own poems
In her ear as she sleeps beside me. — Akiko Yosano

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure. — Cameron Diaz