This is a complete collection of “foreign” quotes feeding the random “Think about it…” sidebar box. Russian expressions can be found in a separate post.
- “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
- “Sometimes, in order to spend a whole day lying in bed and doing nothing, one has to go to another place and book a hotel room.”
- “It takes a long time to grow young.”
- “There are at least five people in this world who'll always love and support you: Jack Daniels, John Jameson, Johnnie Walker, Jim Beam and William Lawson.”
- “Photography is an invention. Photographing is a gift.”
- “Don't talk about love. Don't attempt to analyze it. Make it. Live it. Keep it.”
- “The sole fact that I'm not your type doesn't make you anyhow special.”
- “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
- “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
- “In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
- “You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.”
- “Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands — and then eat just one of the pieces.”
- “Le cynique est celui qui connaît le prix de tout et la valeur de rien.”
- “Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.”
- “Viele Quellen sind mit dem Flusslauf nicht einverstanden.”
- “Si nos vertus ne transparaissent pas hors de nous-mêmes, ce serait comme si nous ne les avions point.”
- “It's better to burn out than to fade away.” (from the suicide note)
- “It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.”
- “When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.”
- “The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.”
- “True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriend's boyfriends — and he accepts it.”
