Karl Philipp Moritz My landlady, who is only a tailor’s widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. – Karl Philipp Moritz Account Quotes Emphasis Quotes Fell Quotes Husband Quotes Landlady Quotes Late Quotes Love Quotes Milton Quotes Proper Quotes Read Quotes Reads Quotes Tailors Quotes Tells Quotes Widow Quotes Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country. In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.
Chris Thile New York will make you feel small. I think that’s good. At least, it’s good for me. – Chris Thile
Charles Scott Sherrington Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles. – Charles Scott Sherrington
Isaac of NinevehPeace Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you. – Isaac of Nineveh
CommunicationLeonard Bernstein Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. – Leonard Bernstein
Nick Sagan Humans having any kind of sporting chance against hostile alien invaders armed with superior technology – Good luck. If they’re advanced enough to cross the enormous distances of interstellar space, they’re advanced enough to wipe us out without breaking whatever in their physiology passes for a sweat. – Nick Sagan
Alvin Leung Just because it tastes good in Hong Kong, it doesn’t necessarily translate elsewhere. – Alvin Leung
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