Villyard Cottage Quotes & Sayings

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria. — Karlheinz Stockhausen

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world. — Gary Steiner

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather. — Immanuel Kant

Just me, rocking the awk. — Erin McCarthy

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers. — Thomas Adams

She is resisting the Internet idea...because she doesn't want to one day tell her children that she posted an ad on the Internet, interviewed twenty-five hopeful candidates, and finally their father turned up and looked good in comparison with the rest of them. It just doesn't seem right. — Jenny Colgan

I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested. — Matthew Weiner

Of course, it took a while to learn all this. Anytime I messed up, my boss would let me know. Right away he'd cuss me out, tell me I was a worthless piece of shit. But I never got pissed at David. In my mind, I thought, I'm better than that and I'll show you. As it happens, that's exactly the — Chris Kyle

I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation. — John McAfee

There is no rest for the striver. Just beyond the completion of each goal on our life-achievement "bucket list" looms another goal, and then another. Meanwhile, of course, the clock is ticking - quite loudly, in fact. We become breathless. And we have no time left for a calm and reflective appreciation of our twilight years, no deliciously long afternoons sitting with friends or listening to music or musing about the story of our lives. And we will never get another chance for that. — Daniel Klein

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. — David Ben-Gurion

No man is so faint-hearted that he would rather hang in suspense for ever than drop once for all. — Seneca.