Schlagwort: Quote
Quote of the Day
„Drinking, whoring, food and fictions
Are my only true addictions.“
– Pawel Gurasijewitsch, the famous linguist of Estonian origin, (Ich stand auf Messers Schneide)
Quote of the Day
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: ‚Have you read a work of Shakespeare’s?‘
I now believe that if I had asked an even simpler question – such as, What do you mean by mass, or acceleration, which is the scientific equivalent of saying, ‚Can you read?‘ – not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same language. So the great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their Neolithic ancestors would have had.
– C.P. Snow (Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution)
Quote of the Day
„Eisenwerkzeuge und ausgeprägt warmes Klima – im Mittel 3 Grad wärmer als heute – trugen zu einer enormen Steigerung landwirtschaftlicher Produktivität bei…“
Kai Vogelsang (Kleine Geschichte Chinas)
Es geht um die Zeit um 453-221 v.Chr.
Quote of the Day
‚You see he was mad. He believed he was nine people at the same time.‘
‚Must have made life very difficult for him.‘
‚It certainly did. Particularly as one of the people was Ethel Barrymore and another Harpo Marx.‘
‚Were most of them film stars?‘
‚Directors as well. He’d been a script-writer you see.‘
‚Enough to drive anyone off his rocker,‘ I said, remembering my own experience.
‚Exactly,‘ the ATS agreed.
– Julian MacLaren-Ross (‚The Nine Men of Soho‘ in Bitten by the Tarantula and other writing)
Quote of the Day
„There’s a streak of the exhibitionist in Guy“, said Clarence. „He likes to feel himself at the centre. He likes to have a following.“
„Well, he certainly has got a following.“
„A following of fools.“
„That’s the only sort anyone can hope to have. The discriminating are lonely….“
– Olivia Manning (The Great Fortune)
Oh, nothing!
„We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, „Oh, nothing!““
– George Eliot (Middlemarch)
Wenn der Tag noch jung ist. Breakfast in Albania.
Medite-same-ean?!
„Schroffe Felswände, deren Firne monatelang mit Schnee bedeckt sind und die sich über dem Meer oder über heißen Ebenen erheben, wo Rosen und Orangenbäume blühen; Steilhänge, die oft direkt ins Meer abfallen – diese klassischen Landschaften finden sich an allen Enden des Mittelmeeres wieder, beinahe austauschbar. Wer wollte von sich behaupten, er vermöge die Küste Dalmatiens, die Sardiniens und die südspanische in der Umgebung von Gibraltar auf den ersten Blick zu unterscheiden? Wer könnte da jeden Irrtum ausschließen? Und doch sind diese Küsten Hunderte von Kilometern voneinander entfernt.
– Fernand Braudel (Die Welt des Mittelmeeres – Zur Geschichte und Geographie kultureller Lebensformen)
Na? Wo ist der Strand?