Weckenonline Quotes & Sayings

Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image. — Vladimir Prelog

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States. — Stephen Kinzer

It is also true that the separate brain units, by
virtue of where they are placed in a system, contribute different
components to the system's operation and are thus not interchangeable. — Antonio R. Damasio

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France. — Ahmed Ben Bella

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity. — Spike Jonze

Standing in the center of the crowd, his solitude was enormous. He felt that in all the vast and frozen space in which he lived his life - every hand needy, every heart wanting something from him - everybody had a reason to be and a place to land. Everybody but him. For him there was nothing. In all the cold and bitter world, there was not a single place for him to sit down. — Robert Goolrick

We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years. — Hugh Laurie

That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. Paulo Coelho — Paulo Coelho

I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes. — Charles Bukowski

God, you Jews are truly exotic.
Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set. — Woody Allen

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. — Charles Fillmore

I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. — Lana Del Rey