Vierendeels Quotes & Sayings

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience. — William James

This is the generation that thinks of itself as global citizens but knows little about the world and acts locally. It is the most diverse generation in collegiate history with the strongest relationships between races but they have limited interest in talking about race or reaching across political or generational divides. — Arthur Levine

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs. — Richard Marx

I can tell you I've crunched the numbers time and time again; it is always more fun to have eight people with one beer than one man with eight beers. — Nick Offerman

The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

Suspect scotch is something you have to convince yourself to enjoy, like sushi or the last few Radiohead albums, but I can't deny the result is nice. — Matthew Norman

I thought you were all-seeing."
All-knowing, not all-seeing!" he snapped. "I'm a God, not Santa Claus! — Kelley Armstrong

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola. — Adam Savage

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves. — Trudi Canavan

I'm a chocolate guy. — Jay Pharoah

A prosecutor's job is to file the evidence wherever it takes us. — Kevin Steele

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights. — Tori Amos

We understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand. — Paulo Coelho

You need anything we're only an hour away, give or take, honey. You call. We'll help you hide the body. — Sean Michael

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office. — Winston Churchill