Wikkeljurken Quotes & Sayings

I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010. — David Stockman

I recently read that Arnold Schwarzenegger collects Hummers. Now we know why Maria's face is frozen in that puckered position. — Brad Wilkerson

No work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. — Uta Hagen

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways. — James Young

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now. — Dennis Weaver

There's only one earth. And there's no spare. — Wubbo Ockels

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision. — Chuck Klosterman

She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument. — Nigel Lawson

It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use. — Thomas A. Edison

We tell ourselves there are reasons for the things that happen, but we are just telling ourselves stories. We make them up. They don't mean anything — Nicola Yoon

Sometimes the male flowers rise to the surface when there are not yet any pistillated flowers in the vicinity. And at other times, when low water permits them easily to reach their companions, they still break their stems no less automatically and uselessly. I maintain here, once again, that the whole genius rests in the species, in life or nature, and that the individual on the whole is stupid. Only in mankind do we find true emulation of the two intelligences, an increasingly precise and active tendency toward a kind of balance that is the great secret of our future. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Please don't let me hope, dear God. Please don't. I — Dorothy Parker