Von Luger: It looks, after all, as if you will see Berlin before I do.
Sedgwick: [On his reason for standing by the shower] I'm watching him. I'm a lifeguard.
Captain Ramius: A great day comrades, we sail into history!
My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.
I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past, I want it to be in the future.
People fear what they do not understand, if they do not understand your greatness, they will fear how great you are - Francois Gabbidon #VisionToVenture
I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin
The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.
You keep learning all the time.
As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.
[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular ...
He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even b...
How strange it was, I thought, that when the tiny though thousandfold beauties of the Earth disappeared and the immeasurable beauty of outer space rose in the distant quiet splendor of light, man and the greatest number of other creatures were suppos...
Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that place. There are a lot of people innovating, and that's not the main distinction of my career. The reas...
To understand antiquity’s idea of man, we must examine its gods and heroes, myths and legends. In these we find the classical prototype of genuine man. ... the will to greatness, wealth, power and fame. Anything opposed to it falls short of the aut...
She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have...
Every Inch of the Way is a great page turning adventure which is as close as you can get, without actually saddling up and pedalling yourself into the unknown. It takes real magic to turn a great adventure, into a great book. For one thing, most peop...
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
