Tykk Strikkegenser Quotes & Sayings

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite. — David Sedaris

I've never been scared of the dark, but I'm still terrified of what's in it. — Elizabeth Duivenvoorde

Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of it, for it is not of the slightest use to them in the struggle for existence. Moreover, they and their organs of hearing were much older than man and his music. Their power of appreciating music is therefore an uncontemplated side-faculty of a hearing apparatus which has become on other grounds what we find it to be. So it is, I believe, with man. He has not acquired his musical hearing as such, but has received a highly developed organ of hearing by a process of selection, because it was necessary to him in the selective process ; and this organ of hearing happens also to be adapted to listening to music. — August Weismann

I still buy books faster than I can read them. But again, this feels completely normal: how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. — Julian Barnes

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s. — Rick Atkinson

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise. — Gay Talese