Wissen Ist Quotes

#1. On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung.
Knowledge is the death of research.
Nernst's motto.

Walther Nernst

#2. The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

Robin Hobb

#3. Don't put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.

Bo Jackson

#4. My real dwelling
Has no pillars
And no roof either
So rain cannot soak it
And wind cannot blow
it down.

Ikkyu

#5. You'll never reach the top (you won't even get out of the basement) if all you ever do is take on the role of victim. Forget about blaming other people for your failures and shortcomings.

Joe Girard

#6. Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was 'Beowulf' because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you're fighting a dragon or whatever.

Ray Winstone

#7. I wandered in the streets, what with the noise the people made, the number of the coaches, the running of the footmen, the swaggering of great courtiers, and the thrusting aside of everybody, many a time I longed to be back among the sheep again, for fear of losing my peacefulness of spirit.

R.D. Blackmore

#8. People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.

Tim Gunn

#9. He had a fund of small talk, a pleasant voice, a caressing glance and his moustache was irresistible. Crisp and curly, it curved charmingly over his lip, fair with auburn tints, slightly paler where it bristled at the ends.

Guy De Maupassant

#10. The fact that we're spending $700 billion a year on oil is actually a good thing; it means we have the prosperity to do it. It means that oil's being used, and oil is the fuel for the engine of freedom.

Rush Limbaugh