Verkaufte Quotes

#1. Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.

Dan Quayle

#2. The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

Charles Darwin

#3. - This, she said, is a book. It is one of our ways of codifying and keeping human knowledge. When it cannot be kept in a person's head, this is one method of keeping it safe. It is a good way of moving ideas from one head to another, as it only requires one person's time to do it, and not two.

Jesse Ball

#4. I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Jimmy Carter

#5. Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas, it can be much better than what you have worked out.

Fatih Akin

#6. What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up.

Jeb Bush

#7. I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack.

Suzanne Somers

#8. But she went and fetched some marigolds from her own little garden, and put them in a vase on the chest of drawers, for she knew there was lots of room for love, even if there was not much for great-aunties.

Joyce Lankester Brisley

#9. I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles.

Nikki Sixx

#10. When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, Buffeted but not broken.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#11. Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

Mason Cooley

#12. Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to murder so many people, and they so rarely murder anybody at all.

Rebecca West

#13. Life is one long series of punches to the gut. You either learn how to duck, or you figure out how to hit back. I've been hitting back so long, at this point I've got a mean left hook and more than my fair share of scars.

Julie Johnson

#14. I had never expected medicine to be such a lawless, uncertain world. I wondered if the compulsive naming of parts, diseases, and chemical reactions - frenulum, otitis, glycolysis - was a mechanism invented by doctors to defend themselves against a largely unknowable sphere of knowledge.

Siddhartha Mukherjee