Heinrich Hoffmann Quotes

#1. I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read aloud to us all. There weren't that many picture books around in the Fifties in Zimbabwe. My favourite was Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, which was really frightening.

Korky Paul

#2. Life, I'd heard someone say, is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. It seemed to me that it was both at once, even for those of us who don't do much of either.

Lawrence Block

#3. Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves.

Matthew Henry

#4. Leaving dishes unwashed is unacceptable, because food remains rot, smell and attract flies. It also makes dishes turn dark over time.

Anastas Mikoyan

#5. When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

Joe Morton

#6. Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#8. Your attitude is a choice you make.

Denis Waitley

#9. I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.

Jasper Fforde

#10. Thinking too much has been my problem for a very long time.

Rick Yancey

#11. It almost makes me cry to tell, what foolish Harriet befell.

Heinrich Hoffmann

#12. Memory is a strange Bell - Jubilee, and Knell.

Emily Dickinson

#13. Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.

Mohnish Pabrai