Valtat Initials Quotes & Sayings

Somehow we didn't connect Germans with Mexicans. We went right back to our myths. One American was as good as twenty Germans. This being true, we had only to act in a stern manner to bring the Kaiser to heel. He wouldn't dare interfere with our trade - but he did. He wouldn't stick out his neck and sink our ships - and he did. It was stupid, but he did, and so there was nothing for it but to fight him. — John Steinbeck

I love both my parents dearly. — Kevin Eubanks

most dependable things in the world are not of any significant use to any substantial problems. — Catherine Lacey

It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries,to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nobody knows the truffles I've seen. — George Lang

I like people. I like watching them. It's just I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very poweful binoculars. — Geraldine McCaughrean

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us. — Tony Abbott

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library. — Martin Lewis Perl

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes — Joseph Joubert

Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living. — Will Herberg

We learn so that we may succeed, and that goes for anything in life, including the arts. It's a falsity that the moment we earn money or wish to earn money for our creations that it ceases to become art. — Karina Halle

In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat. Look at that little package of silicon gel that's inside your sneakers. It says DO NOT EAT for a reason. Somewhere sometime some genius bought a pair of sneakers and said Ooooh look. They give you free mints with the shoes — Morgan Spurlock