Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Paul

The German language is the organ among the languages.

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.

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.

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!

Azzedine Alaia

I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings.

B. B. King

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

Paul Bresson

Our lab has seen an awful lot of work. It's as busy as we've seen in recent memory.

Rebecca Rogers

Our nation has an awful lot to learn from what happened after Hurricane Katrina. This is just one small way of helping to make that happen.

Russell Kinnel

Some of the best performers for the bear market had an awful quarter and some of the worst performers during the bear market had a good quarter.

Penn Jillette

Please print that I promised him I wouldn't do it. I feel awful about it. I wish I hadn't done it.

Mark Thomas

I'm horrified. We're all gay! You can say a lot of things about Cafeteria in Miami. I know we've had awful service at times and we're very aware. It's been a huge challenge to keep quality people. But not homophobia.

Jane Goodall

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

Carl Rogers

It's an awful risky thing to live

Tony Judt

I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Sean Sweeney

I think they picked an awful day weatherwise, but it doesn't seem to have dampened the crowd at all. I haven't had to wait in line all day.