Beyle's Quotes

#1. Beyle's advice is not to purchase engravings of fine views and prospects seen on one's travels, since before very long they will displace our memories completly, ideed one might say they destroy them.

W.G. Sebald

#2. In 1969, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani came to Harvard as research fellows. Together, we found the arguments that predicted the existence of charmed hadrons.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#3. I do not laugh; I do not cry;
I'm sweating out the will to die.
My past is sliding down the drain;
I soon will be myself again.

Theodore Roethke

#4. I think I just had an evilgasm.

Rich Burlew

#5. To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.

Stendhal

#6. He's too fresh," said Mrs. Wiggins. "I can't abide a fresh duck." "You said the other day you couldn't abide a bashful duck," Jinx said. "Make up your mind, cow." "I can't stand either of 'em," Mrs. Wiggins said. "This Edward seems to be two ducks, and I don't like either of them.

Walter R. Brooks

#7. The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.

Vladimir Putin

#8. I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.

Charlotte Bingham