Paukenslag Quotes

#1. This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit
Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense,
More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it
Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence.

John Davies Of Hereford

#2. I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

Penelope Ann Miller

#3. We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

Bob Weir

#4. Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

Charles Darwin

#5. Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.

Wendy Kopp

#6. What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.

Max Von Sydow

#7. A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

Paul Feig

#8. Sound is the most absorbent medium of all, soaking up histories and philosophical systems and physical surroundings and encoding them in something so slight as a single vocal quaver or icy harpsichord interjection.

Geoffrey O'Brien

#9. There are a million roads into hell, but not one road out of it.

John Blanchard

#10. The strongest distinguishing characteristic of humans is their power of denial.

Deborah Harkness

#11. To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

#12. A liar should have a good memory. - Quintilian, Institutions Oratoriae, iv. 2, 91

Jodi Picoult