Storstadsmamman Quotes & Sayings

The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them. — Daniel Gilbert

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour. — John G. D. Clark

Clarity is blinding and can be the most destructive element of all in human relations. — John Peter Nettl

You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore. — Christoph Waltz

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. — Sun Tzu

We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. — David Graeber

But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes protrude from the head, and lends the features a corpselike and terrifying aspect. More than that, this music acted on the nerves that controlled her digestion, producing in her dyspeptic organism such malaise that she was really afraid she would have an attack. — Thomas Mann

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance — Karl Popper

Why do you have such a crappy attitude about math?"
"I don't. I have a crappy attitude about everything. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay. — Florence Scovel Shinn