Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799

Topics

CrazyCleverMindsBecomeOriginal

When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz.

John Fuller

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I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

John Hodgman

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I think I prefer 3D to 2D now.

Ang Lee

ThinkNowI ThinkPrefer

My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.

Meshell Ndegeocello

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Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.

Lou Diamond Phillips

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Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know.

Juan Gabriel

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I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

Juan Marichal

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Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final.

Philippe Coutinho

FootballTeamMoreHardFinalLike

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

Seth Shostak

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We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again.

Tom Araya

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I'm completely absorbed by Peter Guralnick's definitive, two-part biography of Elvis Presley: 'Last Train To Memphis' and 'Careless Love.' Meticulously researched, this is a compelling mix of history, myth-busting, and, of course, some timeless music.

Mark Billingham

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I find theater emotionally expensive and all-involving. You have to pour so much blood and passion and heart into it. And so much time. Why do that for something that's only vaguely interesting and anyone can do it?

Marianne Elliott

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