Buchinger Quotes

#1. I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had no arms or legs and yet did magic, and had 14 kids, and made the most extraordinary calligraphy.

Ricky Jay

#2. There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

R.D. Laing

#3. Be human. Be a dreamer. Be your own personal success story. Then help others to dream again. Humanity depends on it.

Julieanne O'Connor

#4. Only bad actors memorize lines. Good actors are perpetually writing them as they act.

Mark Helprin

#5. The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.

Jennifer Niven

#6. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

#7. Time made apologies and absolution unnecessary. Time didn't really heal, it just made bad memories distant so that the brain couldn't recapture the lost pain

Amulya Malladi

#8. It goes without saying that a great majority of men are sex addicts, or would be if they could manage to get laid.

Drew Nellins Smith

#9. The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.

Maajid Nawaz

#10. This rootless shifting east and west
I can't suppress a smile myself
but how else can I make
the whole world my home.
If any of my old friends
come around asking
say I'm down at the river
by the Second Fushimi Bridge.

Baisao

#11. My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.

Taylor Wilson

#12. The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

Franz Marc

#13. I know I can still play at a high level.

Michael Vick

#14. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Thomas Huxley

#15. Life is always going to keep us guessing; often it throws us for a complete loop.

Connor Franta

#16. We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.

David Whyte