Steinhafels Mattress Quotes & Sayings

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed. — John Fowles

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic. — Branford Marsalis

Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die. — Matthew Crow

It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion and desire and impotence and sickness of the body, cowering in the darkening shadow of its own decay. This longing had historically been the domain of religion, and was now the increasingly fertile terrain of technology. — Mark O'Connell

They kissed for the sort of endless moment that only exists between lovers whose lips are still new territory to one another. — Scott Lynch

Maybe I would get the chance to be financed for a small romantic comedy, but a war movie by a 28-year-old woman about Japanese soldiers? No one was going to go for that. It's easy to just steal an idea because it's very safe. — Julie Delpy

Books are just words, yet arranged by the author so that they speak to your very soul. — Jason Ellis

Time lost is time lost. It's gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best. — John Wooden

Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand the pedagogue's responsibility until it engulfs his pupils' lifetimes will deliver universal education. The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. — Ivan Illich

Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer. — William O'Neil

We won the bloody war. Never again, we said. Then Hitler comes along and starts building his squadrons of panzers and fighter planes - purely for defense, he assures everyone, and we believe him. Even when he marches into the Rhineland we believe him. Two years later he's trampling all over bloody Austria, and now he's ripping Czechoslovakia to pieces. And still our Prime Minister says he trusts him! His — Michael Dobbs