Scharpling And Wurster Quotes

#1. For Lacan, language is a gift as dangerous to humanity as the horse was to the Trojans: it offers itself to our use free of charge, but once we accept it, it colonizes us.

Slavoj Zizek

#2. Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

Nevil Shute

#3. Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer ... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

Bill Watterson

#4. A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

Herman Melville

#5. During Life, we cultivate relationships by spending days with others.
During eternity, we cultivate relationships by spending lifetimes with others.

Donald L. Hicks

#6. And if I wavered for the instant it was not with what I kept back.

Henry James

#7. Nothing seems true today except the death of the goldfish who used to make love at ninety kilometers an hour in the pool. The maid has given him a Christian burial. To the worms! To the worms!

Anais Nin

#8. You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

William J. Clinton

#9. We are not self-caused little gods.

Sam Harris

#10. Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.

Guru Gobind Singh

#11. I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. It was a dream come true working with Johnny Depp. He's always been my acting idol. Working with him and watching him work taught me a lot as an actor. He's very down to earth and a lot of fun to hang out with.

Mason Cook

#13. You have a face that suits a woman
For her soul's screen
The sort of beauty that's called human
In hell, Faustine.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#14. It is "humanism" that should run in the veins of the thinking humanity, not a certain gender-oriented "ism". This entire book is a treatise on gender equality, and as such, it may be hailed as a work of feminism, but it is not - it is a work of humanism.

Abhijit Naskar

#15. The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

Robert Henri