Overwintering Quotes

#1. All unemployed Jews are sent to labour camps in the countryside. A survivor remembered that "It was like a Russian winter. The snow lay metres deep on the tracks and froze over. To be there made one feel as though one was overwintering in Nova Zemlya."27

Geert Mak

#2. It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.

Niklas Zennstrom

#3. For in general mortals have a great power of being astonished at the presence of an effect toward which they have done everything, and at the absence of an effect toward which they had done nothing but desire it.

George Eliot

#4. I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else ... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me.

Lea Thompson

#5. The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#6. The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality ... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.

Gisele Freund

#7. Some genius of the South
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.

Jean Toomer

#8. Economic absurdities are produced only when power is at stake.

Ernst Junger

#9. I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

Nick Clegg

#10. How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?

Anne Hutchinson

#11. Use truth to fight the lies. Use the heart to fight the mind.

Suzy Kassem

#12. Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#13. Most things I go through I have to write about.

Keri Hilson

#14. They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

Bill Hicks