Neuman Quotes

#1. These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand.

George Lois

#2. When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
[as quoted by Alfred E Neuman]

Lou Holtz

#3. There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers

Marilyn Manson

#4. Packing a bag doesn't make you aware of changes, rather it compels you to postpone the past, and the present is taken up with concerns about the immediate. Time slides over the travelers' skin.

Andres Neuman

#5. I wonder whether, perhaps without realizing it, we seek out the books we need to read. Or whether books themselves, which are intelligent entities, detect their readers and catch their eye. In the end, every book is the I Ching. You pick it up, open it, and there it is, there you are.

Andres Neuman

#6. Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language together.

Andres Neuman

#7. At the beginning, all roads seem endless; but they are not!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life.

Robin Hobb

#9. Zeke and I struggled to get to the dressing room so we could get changed. But we were mobbed by people who wanted to congratulate us and tell us how talented and terrific we were.

R.L. Stine

#10. The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in?

Jim Gaffigan

#11. He would always want me near him. I would always be first in his eyes. We were a good match. A perfect match. Soul mates.
Passion, friendship, love, loyalty, trust ... if you found the right person ... you really could have it all.

S.C. Stephens

#12. I loved journalism until the day my journalism teacher, a man I revered, came by my desk and said, 'Are you planning on going into journalism?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'I wouldn't.' I said, 'Well, why not?' He said, 'You can't make a living.'

Ed Asner

#13. A statement of truth, and that is:
Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success would have been impossible.

Felicia Martin

#14. I heard now the fear in their brightness. It trickled along underneath them like a secret spring.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#15. It's a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn't laugh.

Andres Neuman

#16. Perhaps farewells create new territories, or they send us back to the only territory that truly belongs to us, that of solitude.

Andres Neuman

#17. All is well that ends well

Emily Rodda

#18. But isn't that what love is, the old man said, being happy to stay?

Andres Neuman

#19. History shows that people are as changeable as rivers.

Andres Neuman

#20. I don't know how long it will all last either, and for now I don't care. Today it is thus, we both agree, and with you it is always today.

Andres Neuman

#21. Well, this is how I see it - every tune tells a tale, nearly always a sad one. When I turn the handle I imagine I'm the hero of that tale and I try to feel at one with its melody. But at the same time it's as if I'm pretending, do you see?

Andres Neuman

#22. Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

Celia Green

#23. We lose the fear of letting go of our baggage, but also the certainty that what is in them belongs to us.

Andres Neuman

#24. Women who know what they want never want anything interesting.

Andres Neuman

#25. Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Craig Sherman

#26. And I couldn't help wondering where the hell the fatherland was, what exactly were we fighting for? Did I find out? Ah, that's a good point. It may sound strange, but from talking to the other militiamen I realised it was our childhood memories we were fighting for.

Andres Neuman

#27. Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#28. Companionship isn't about experiencing the great moments together. True companionship is the other stuff. Sharing a sincere doing nothing.

Andres Neuman

#29. To keep your skin looking healthy and young, wear a hat.

Mia Sara