Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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• When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Harmony

• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

  

  Mal Peet
  • Way
  • Try
  • Without

• There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • You
  • Me
  • I Can

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• 'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Expectations
  • Become

• I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

  

  Kanye West
  • Band
  • Always
  • British

• I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Classic

• We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Musicians

• The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Different
  • Education
  • Health

• To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

  

  Larry Elder
  • World
  • House
  • Opinion

• I'm not a girl who sits home and knits, you know.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Home
  • Girl
  • Know

• Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • High
  • Energy

• I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Small
  • Born
  • Small Town

• I don't think there is any harm in it, but I tell you, there are demons and there are evil people in the world, and you post a picture like that and some cultist gets hold of it or a coven and they begin muttering curses against an unborn child. ... You never know what somebody's going to do.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • World
  • Evil

• The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reading

• I am sometimes accused of being oversensitive about unemployment. I do not believe that that is possible, certainly not for anyone who lived through the 1930s and saw the political consequences of high unemployment throughout Western Europe and what happened in 1939.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Believe
  • High
  • Political

• I think we have to acknowledge that people are different and succeed at different things, first of all. Men are better than women at some professions like firefighting, construction work, and physics. But women are better than men at some professions, too, like elementary teaching, prostitution, and giving birth. Who's to say which is more important?

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it means to be black.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Black
  • Violence

• You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things, like, 'That's what I'm going for,' and I have a subjective version of that. I don't pressure myself … If you fall in love with someone, you want to own them - but really, why would you want that? You want them to be what you love. I'm much too young to even have an answer for that question.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg