Carl Pfeiffer (Carl Curt Pfeiffer) Quotes

Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant.

Carl Pfeiffer

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• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Why

• I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Wine

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Mood

• A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Door
  • Speed

• Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Women
  • Industry
  • Unhappy

• I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Knowledge
  • Religious
  • Analyze

• I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Voice
  • Lord
  • Theologian

• Candy apple red is my favorite color. It's a powerful color to wear. It's always been that way - I've always been really attracted to that color.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Powerful
  • Color
  • Red

• If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Interest

• Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Education
  • Alone

• For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Think
  • Independent

• Bitcoin has the potential to destroy credit cards and banks as we know it. Maybe that is a good thing or a bad thing, but I like the idea that if someone needs to remit payments, they can do it without being gouged.

  

  Garry Tan
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Credit

• Our message is the same age-old message of life. We have taught in the world for half a century: 'life is bliss, free from problems, it’s not necessary to suffer'.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • World
  • Age

• I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Good
  • Long
  • Food

• Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.

  

  Geneva Carr
  • People
  • Art
  • Job

• I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Mind
  • College

• Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

  

  Yoshio Taniguchi
  • Hope
  • Architecture
  • Tea

• The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • America

• We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Religious
  • Ignore

• Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant.

  

  Carl Pfeiffer
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Brain