Beurer Scale Quotes

#1. Make way! Move it, people! Lets make room for this poor woman's hideously disfigured, ginormous brain! She's a fucking genius!

Jamie McGuire

#2. Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

Gustave Courbet

#3. Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who've never met me, who don't know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he's just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.

Michel Faber

#4. I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it's like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that's what they were doing; it's like a message from another culture.

Jonathan Dee

#5. If I could wish for anything else, it would be a little more moderation, a little more tolerance, and a little more of the trustful innocence of that boy who learned his prayers at the knee of the gentle, kindly old priest at the Sisters' Convent school.

Jack Black

#6. As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

Nancy Grace

#7. CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

Annie E. Clark

#8. I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

Sarah Fielding

#9. It's open season; a season that lasts all year round. There are no permits required, no restrictions levied. Grab yourself a shotgun and head out into the open software fields to root out those pesky varmints, the elusive bugs, and squash them, dead. OK, reality is not as saccharin as that.

Anonymous

#10. Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.

Philip Pullman

#11. Not slumber, but sleep just this side of waking, where dreams fuse with reality.

Ellen Hopkins

#12. If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

Colin Wilson

#14. You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein