Schlachthof Bamberg Quotes

#1. I often calculate odds on horse races; the civil service computermen frequently program such requests. But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data is too meager, or the horses or riders are not honest. Possibly all three.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. You wanna hang with the big dogs, you can't piss like a pup.

Eric Koston

#3. Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

Salvador Dali

#4. I think that's what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.

Schoolboy Q

#5. Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.

Michael Oher

#6. You may wonder why I'm not in the Hab right now. Because I fled in terror, that's why! And I'm not sure what the hell to do next.

Andy Weir

#7. My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.

Calvin Trillin

#9. ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes.
LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind.
MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our own world what the mind already knows.

Orhan Pamuk

#10. Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

David Sedaris

#11. Love is a weakness which converts even the strongest minds as its slave and makes them sing its tune.

Auliq Ice

#12. You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. We might have been on the outside looking in at our own families and our own lives, but at least we could stand outside together.

Jay Crownover

#14. We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

W. H. Auden

#15. The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.

John Maynard Keynes