We cannot make history: we must wait while it is being made. We will not make fruit ripen more quickly by subjecting it to the heat of a lamp; and if we pluck the fruit before it is ripe, we will only prevent its growth and spoil it.
Otto von Bismarck |
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling |
Wisdom is becoming competent with regard to the realities of life.
Gerhard von Rad |
Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.
Adrian Rodgers |
All dentists talk while they work. They have inherited this from their professional ancestors, the barbers.
Mark Twain |
What stands in the way becomes the way.
Marcus Aurelius |
I cried all the way to the bank.
Liberace
(countering his critics) |
What is drama after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock |
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
John Milton
Paradise Lost (1667) |
This is the place to be - in the land of swimming pools.
David Hockney
(on his 1964 move from Yorkshire, England to Los Angeles) |
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Georges Braque |
Friends are God's apology for relatives.
Hugh Kingsmill |
The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.
Martin Rees |
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales |
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
Walter Annenberg |
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles C. Colton |
I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.
Jo Brand |
I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That's what I want to do.' I thought classical music was corny.
Jason Moran |
When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.
Nico Mirallegro |
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
Damien Hirst |
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Napoleon Bonaparte |
I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.
Mohamed Al-Fayed |
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
Pierre Loti |
To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist.
Sarah Parcak |
I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.
Mitch Hedberg |
People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
Charles Bukowski |
Some people are like bag of diapers. Easy to throw but difficult to hold on.
Saif Ullah |
A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana |
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning |
I do splurge on diaper bags. I have a half dozen in different colors and styles.
Elizabeth Hasselbeck |
I can change a No. 1 diaper in 30 seconds and a No. 2 in a minute.
John Tesh |
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich |
You really don't need to study how to change a diaper. As a new mom, you learn pretty darn quickly!
Ivanka Trump |
Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?
Frank Pittman |
Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it.
Jeff Foxworthy |
I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over.
Drew Brees |
I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon.
Nikki Reed |
Diaper backward spells repaid.
Marshall McLuhan |
As the velocity of air increases, its pressure decreases.
Daniel Bernoulli
Bernoulli's theorem, Bernoulli principle, Bernoulli equation |
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Isaac Newton
Newton's Third Law of Motion |
My wife simply quoted, 'For better or worse.' It was only then that I realized the phrase was not multiple-choice.
Michael Gurnow
Nature's Housekeeper |
Speed is not a priority, just enjoy your hike.
Barry Putra |
Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat.
Toni Sorenson |
Hiking's not for everyone. Notice the wilderness is mostly empty.
Sonja Yoerg
The Middle of Somewhere |
Childhood is a wilderness.
Aspen Matis
Girl in the Woods: A Memoir |
Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces.
Frederic Gros
A Philosophy of Walking |
Hiking and happiness go hand in hand (or foot in boot).
Diane Spicer |
Trekking means a travelling experience with a thrilling excitement.
Amit Kalantri |
You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.
Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words |
Once on his feet, though, man does not stay where he is.
Frederic Gros
A Philosophy of Walking |
