Staatsoper Wien Quotes & Sayings

It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. And why not? For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back in geologic time as the upper Jurassic period. Fossils of these ancients have been found dating from the Cretaceous era while in the Eocene and Miocene they were spread over England and Europe and America. And then the glaciers moved down and wiped the Titans out beyond recovery. And only these few are left
a stunning memory of what the world was like once long ago. Can it be that we do not love to be reminded that we are very young and callow in a world that was old when we came into it? And could there be a strong resistance to the certainty that a living world will continue its stately way when we no longer inhabit it? — John Steinbeck

If, as I've said all along, the universe at any time is what you say it is, then say. — James Burke

Many young activists tend to resist spirituality, thinking that religion has nothing to do with social change and is, in fact, part of the problem. — Adam Bucko

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen. — Jerry Brown

Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization. — Jeff Jarvis

Word, when you give it power that's what it holds". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer. — Richard M. Nixon

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook. — Bill Watterson

Taylor Maddox, sir. US Forest Service trash. — Jamie McGuire

We lay on the grass beside the cemetery fence, kissing and shivering. Her teeth started to chatter and I pulled her against me, which made me feel like a superhero for no apparent reason. — Brenna Yovanoff

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. — William Steig