Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

Jodie Foster

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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song.

Matthew Underwood

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I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

Andy Roddick

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I really love fish, so I'll mix between that and meat, but I have to have protein. I can't survive without it.

Ana Ivanovic

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If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men.

Stephanie Coontz

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I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.

Tom Ford

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A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

Ron Paul

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I increasingly wonder whether most humans are in a constant state of unconsciously fearing each other. Perhaps they fear how intimately different other people might be to them, and the problem is that there is no real way of finding out just how huge that difference might be.

Michael Leunig

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I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

Douglas Coupland

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Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

Arthur Eddington

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I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

Anthony Hopkins

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