Buhlmann Middle East Quotes

#1. The seven deadly sins ... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. If I toss something upward, it comes back down." "Except when it doesn't." "It's a law." "No," Syl said, looking upward. "It's more like . . . more like an agreement among friends.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

Moliere

#4. He could probably have persuaded even Cerberus to leave his post and go off in search of a few dog biscuits.

Robert Rankin

#5. I have to ask, sir ... Why does it have to be done like this?"
Vetinari smiled. "Can you keep a secret, Mister Lipwig?"
"Oh, yes, sir. I've kept lots."
"Capital. And the point is, so can I. You do not need to know.

Terry Pratchett

#6. The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing.

Socrates

#7. Eight solid light-years of lead ... is the thickness of that metal in which you would need to encase yourself if you wanted to keep from being touched by neutrinos. I guess the little fuckers are everywhere.

Michael Chabon

#8. Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

Edmund White

#9. The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

Aristotle.

#10. director under George H. W. Bush

Ted Bell

#11. If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

Norman Mailer

#12. A transaction is a commercial favor.

Ben Tolosa