Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TalentStupidityPerformanceSpirit

In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

Ann Leckie

FutureGenderStereotypesNowHere

People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.

John Stumpf

PeopleManagerLeaveCompanies

I lived in a basement duplex on 96th Street on the Upper West Side.

Stephen Karam

StreetSideLivedWestBasement

It's like I tell everybody, if you get a chance to win the Royal Rumble or the King of the Ring back when they had it, that means you're gonna get a push. You getting an opportunity at something big, and it can really set up your future for you. So if you're that guy, boy, it's pressure.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

FutureOpportunityKingWinChance

I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

Silas Weir Mitchell

MorningGreatNew YorkChurchDoing

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great.

Michel Hazanavicius

ChangeGreatYouPerfectSometimes

Because I'm pretty, everybody thinks I'm stupid. But it is like a mask, and you have to break the mask to show that there is something else behind it. You have to show who you are to make the others come to discover you.

Monica Bellucci

StupidMaskYouOthersBreakPretty

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

Joss Whedon

TryingDownWriteOutHeadThings

Think of how dark that Friday was when Christ was lifted up on the cross... It was a Friday filled with devastating, consuming sorrow that gnawed at the souls of those who loved and honored the Son of God.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

SonGodThinkLovedFridayDark

When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.

Bret Stephens

WorkTruthTrustYouWallStreet

Even the sheep are afraid of me.

Ariel Sharon

MeSheepAfraidEven

My wife's a gardener. I'd put Astroturf down everywhere, but I get outvoted one to one every year.

Ken Cuccinelli

WifeYearDownGetEveryEverywhere

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