Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

Mark Twain

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

Mark Twain

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

Martin Heidegger

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Mark Twain

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Mark Twain

How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

Karl Kraus

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

John le Carre

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

Jean Paul

The German language is the organ among the languages.

Carl Jung

Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.

Two Chainz

My pop did a little time.

Rob Zombie

I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.

Richard P. Feynman

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right...

Richard Baxter

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.

Renzo Piano

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

Rebecca West

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Russell Brand

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

Russell Brand

As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

Keith Faulkner

He said I look better today than I did the day we married,

James Park

Today is a very directionless market, ... It is really quiet. There's not much going on.

Alan Doss

Today is a day of hope, a day of optimism.

Donald Tusk

Today I must tell myself I did not make it.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Greg Taylor

I don't get up and think today is going to be 'the' day they find something. I get up every day and think that 'someday' they will find something.

Graeme Smith

He had a re-scan today and it doesn't look good. It would pretty much look like he's going home.