Zwanghafte Quotes & Sayings

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out. — Philip Roth

That actually is true of most of the books in the New Testament. Such so-called pseudepigraphical works, or works attributed to but not written by a specific author, were extremely common in the ancient world and should by no means be thought of as forgeries. — Reza Aslan

read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with a horror which at times assails me yet. — Robert W. Chambers

Suddenly, a high-pitched sound blasted into the room. The floor began shaking beneath her feet. She paused for a moment, wondering if she was causing this. — Anne-Rae Vasquez

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore. — Bill Lee

His persona seemed very odd to me: it was as though he'd once seen an intellectual, and had spent the rest of his life impersonating him. — John Cleese

My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.

{Commenting about Louis Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.} — Jean-Baptiste Biot