Torbern Bergmann Quotes & Sayings

When will my country die for me? — Grace Slick

I spend roughly $80 per year watching bananas go brown. — G.H. Eckel

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves. — Richard Leakey

A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters. — Walter Tracy

One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying. — Tomas Eloy Martinez

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration? — Charles R. Swindoll

In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and define it, but the ascertaining of an elusive scent, not recognized subconsciously and at once, is a very subtle operation of the mind. And he failed. It was gone before he could properly seize or name it. Approximate description, even, seems to have been difficult, for it was unlike any smell he knew. Acrid rather, not unlike the odor of a lion, he thinks, yet softer and not wholly unpleasing, with something almost sweet in it that reminded him of the scent of decaying garden leaves, earth, and the myriad, nameless perfumes that make up the odor of a big forest. Yet the 'odor of lions' is the phrase with which he usually sums it all up.
("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood

Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you. — Frederick Seidel

If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules. — Rick Riordan

It would be a mistake to suppose that all Urnings must be woman-haters. Quite the contrary. They are not seldom the faithfulest friends, the truest allies, and most convinced defenders of women. — Otto De Joux

National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it. — Aleksandra Mir