“If you talk to people, you can have whatever you want.”
David Sedaris (1956) American author
26.09.1978 - p.21
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
“If you talk to people, you can have whatever you want.”
David Sedaris (1956) American author
26.09.1978 - p.21
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
“Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
In das Gute glauben nur die Wenigen, die es üben.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 29.
Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904–1986) Indian Bharatnatyam dancer
Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, 1 December 2013, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,
R. Venkataraman (1910–2009) seventh Vice-President of India and the 8th President of India
Source: Commissions and Omissions by Indian Presidents and Their Conflicts with the Prime Ministers Under the Constitution: 1977-2001, P.184.
“People are like music; few, pure harmony... many, only noise.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Le persone sono come la musica; poche, pura armonia... tante, solo rumore.
Source: prevale.net
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
"On Medical Education" (1870) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE3/MedEd.html <br class="br">1870s <br class="br">Context: I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance — that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Jimmy Wales (1966) Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur
Comment about "drama mongers" on the Wikipedia Administrator's noticeboard, (23 November 2007) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive330&diff=prev&oldid=173346013
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister on two occasions
Source: Essays and Sketches of Life and Character (1820), p. 136