Wegener Quotes

#1. That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. Nevertheless, we see that Wegener was right, and those who objected on the grounds of unavailable mechanism were wrong.

Carl Sagan

#2. In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution.

Kage Baker

#3. The mark of a good officer, Wegener repeatedly told his youngsters, was willingness to admit he had something yet to learn.

Tom Clancy

#4. To be sure, Wegener made mistakes. He asserted that Greenland is drifting west at about 1.6 kilometres a year, a clear nonsense. (Its more like a centimetre.)

Bill Bryson

#5. We can't say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we're here for, how to live more poetically.

William Segal

#6. It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.

Alfred Wegener

#7. Heartfelt communicators make such a difference in the lives of others through their authentic depth and sincere expression.

Miya Yamanouchi

#8. I love you. I know i say it too much, but now that i can, i can't stop.

Kahlen Aymes

#9. My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

Jonathan Kozol

#10. I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

Francis Ford Coppola

#11. To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

Willa Cather

#12. You're not kissing my wife tonight.

Serena Grey

#13. Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.

Catherine Anderson

#14. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

Voltaire

#16. People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

A.A. Milne

#17. As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

Pearl S. Buck

#18. We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

Alfred Wegener

#19. I can't think of anyone I've mistreated. I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us.

B.B. King

#20. Imagine you're a girl,
just trying to finally come clean,
knowing full well they'd prefer you
were dirty and smiling.

Ani DiFranco