Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

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.

Jean Paul

The German language is the organ among the languages.

Martin Heidegger

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

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.

Karl Kraus

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

Cathy Moriarty

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

Cecil Beaton

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Carl Sagan

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

Berkeley Breathed

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

Bill Budge

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

Bertrand Russell

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.

Petrarch

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

William Shakespeare

A little more than kin, a little less than kind.

Beck

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

Arrigo Sacchi

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

Bill Vaughan

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

J. Stoltzfus

Today was a make-nice day, and I think it went well.

Ted Jr.

Today was a big, big win for us.

Paul Roos

Today that didn't happen, we've got to work out why?

Thomas Froehlich

We've made an announcement today and there is no other decision.

Toni Jennings

Where we are today is about where we were two weeks after Andrew,

Azzedine Alaia

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,