Toine Knipping Quotes & Sayings

Atlanta's nickname was well earned; a Chocolate City indeed it was. — T. Geronimo Johnson

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. — David Mamet

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime. — M. E. W. Sherwood

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad — Mark Twain

While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do so with Internet communications. — Rebecca MacKinnon

These young men, in other words, represented a variety of types, but one thing they had in common was that they'd all given up on committing positively to anything in life. This was not their fault, however. The blame lay with a certain ubiquitous spirit of the times, transmitted to them by their respective mothers. And perhaps it goes without saying that this "spirit of the times" was in fact an oppressive value system based primarily upon the absolute certainty that nothing in this world was ever going to change. — Ryu Murakami

At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all. — Louise Erdrich

It's a strange grief ... to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live. — Alessandro Baricco