Teile Direkt Quotes & Sayings

I was seventeen and the star of my high school play. I was supposed to kiss my leading man, but I couldn't stand the guy. I really didn't want to kiss him. All during rehearsals, I refused to kiss him. Then my drama teacher told me, If you don't kiss him on opening night, you'll flunk drama class. So I kissed him, and that was my first kiss. — Donna Mills

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing. — Michael Jordan

That was what bothered him most: the fact that she seemed to encourage his advances, and even granted him certain liberties, up to the point at which she turned on him with violence or laughter. He did not know which was worse, the chuckling or the blows; there was something terribly unmanly about being on the receiving end of either. But he looked forward to a time when he could repay her, could laugh at her or strike her as he saw fit. Thus marriage was already in his mind. Next — Shelby Foote

He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death. — Mencius

Aidan Kincaid, wearing cargo pants and a dark blue T-shirt with a Search-and-Rescue emblem on the pec, a radio on his hip, looking dusty and hot and tired and sexy as hell. — Jill Shalvis

Very few people have a lot of time to dedicate to one hobby. I was fortunate to have started so young, because when you're young you have nothing but time. Hours and hours to burn up on something as silly as a movie. — Robert Rodriguez

I am the Colombus of this nether world!
Dr. Leidenbrock — Jules Verne

People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early '80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy. — Sherry Turkle

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves? — G.K. Chesterton

True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge. — Confucius

The Hellish and dismal cloud of ... Coal ... perpetually imminent over (London) ... that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist ... corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs, ... Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides. — John Evelyn

Why [..] should the boundary of sacrosanct life match the boundary of our species? — Peter Singer

I'm not playing for lack of options. But this is such a fleeting thing. When I'm done, I'm never, ever going to be able to come back to it. I know Vancouver is my last go. — Angela Ruggiero

I've been stocking my nuts away like a squirrel for 15 years. I don't have kids, I don't have a wife. I own my own house. I don't owe anybody for it so I put my nuts away. I really made a commitment to myself to just do what I like to do and want to do, and not to do anything. I'm not even going to give six weeks away for money anymore, you know? — John Corbett