Wilhelm Raabe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
-
I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
-
Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
-
New York City is my favorite city in the world.
-
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
-
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
-
I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
-
I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
-
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
-
While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
-
To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
-
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
-
The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
-
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
-
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
-
I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
-
I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
-
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
-
I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich enough in resources to be economically useful to Earth. In the final analysis, everything we do in space, if it does not help the people of Earth, all the people, it's not going to happen.
-
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
-
I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
-
CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.
-
A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.
