Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Together
  • Team
  • Confidence

• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Know
  • Brain
  • Army

• And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Know
  • Voice

• Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Personally
  • Lean
  • Lyrically

• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Truth

• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Door

• As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Mom

• I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Positive

• When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Person
  • Just

• I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • Mad
  • Race

• Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Day
  • Thoughts
  • Week

• Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Little

• It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Never

• The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Up
  • Age
  • Day

• In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailing-boat equipment, the gin and tonic.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Boat
  • Sailing

• Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.

  

  David Cook
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Light

• I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Book

• Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Growing
  • Present