Wohnt Wohnst Quotes & Sayings

I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important. — E. J. Hughes

Skye, no one except you believes in the possibility of Batty blowing up. — Jeanne Birdsall

He encouraged me to take one more deep puff and hold it in, so I did, and the smoke traveled down on top of my esophagus and then did a U-turn up into where my brain was supposed to be. At first it felt like fireworks, and then I began to feel like I was floating down a stream. I liked it. And I took another puff and studied my ass off. The next morning, however, I would fail my very first Spanish exam, because I would not remember how to conjugate anything except Abraham. — Terry McMillan

Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I have nothing to give anyone, really. It's the one gift I can give that has any kind of value. It makes me feel worthy. — Fisher Amelie

It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.) — John Edensor Littlewood

In the 1960s there was increasing awareness of the effects of loss and separation on the child. The peak year for documented adoptions by strangers was 1968, and 66 percent of these were babies under one year of age. Agencies began to concern themselves with family dynamic theory and to study the dynamic interplay between the adopted person and other family members. — Joyce Maguire Pavao

It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy. — Robert Zoellick

That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it. — Charles Bukowski

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. — James Humes

They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever. — Laini Taylor