Adelbert von Chamisso Quotes

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

Adelbert von Chamisso

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• I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Television
  • Hollywood
  • Quiet

• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Done

• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Positive
  • Blood
  • White

• I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Day

• My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Grandparents

• The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!

  

  Larry Williams
  • Time
  • Day
  • Down

• I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Scared

• I'm not a violent person.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Person
  • Violent

• That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Me
  • Books
  • Certainly

• The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Childhood

• When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time incorporating themes that speak to my heart.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Character

• We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Attention

• If no one is corrupt, no one will be poor.

  

  Benigno Aquino III

• All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Heart
  • True

• If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happiness
  • Virtue
  • Activity

• Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

  

  George Ellwanger
  • Wine
  • Welfare
  • Destined

• However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Always
  • Rich
  • Poor Man

• Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

  

  Adelbert von Chamisso