Meisterstuck Quotes

#1. I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Flora Lewis

#2. Everyone fears rejection.

Derek Jeter

#3. Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

Elizabeth Warren

#4. Sometimes, it's important to turn off the noise from the outside world. Sometimes, it's critical to stop the banter even within oneself. Intentional solitude and quiet can make us strong for tomorrow.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#5. I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

Adrian Rogers

#6. Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

Euripides

#8. Smiles are the soul's kisses.

Minna Antrim

#9. Whenever I have a little time off, I try to go back to my farm in South Africa. I'll spend time with my family and hunt antelope, kudu and springbok. During a 2010 hunting trip, I tore some ligaments in my ankle when I stepped in a hole.

Louis Oosthuizen

#10. The strange thing about television is that it doesn't tell you everything.

Walter Tevis

#11. I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!

Terry Pratchett

#12. There's so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it's almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.

Richard P. Feynman

#13. Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.

Gene Siskel

#14. Peppermint Patty's team is short a glove, so I'm walking over to lend them mine."
"You're kidding! Don't you think they're taking advantage of you?"
"No, I'm doing it because I want to do it."
"What are you, some kind of mystic?!

Charles M. Schulz

#15. Jacob was the only person I'd ever met, besides myself, who believed music was a cosmic language that spoke directly to our souls - to ease our pain, and to remind us we weren't alone.

Tiffanie DeBartolo