The British during World War ii came up with some imaginative ideas. One was to freeze the clouds, move them along the coast of southern England, and use them as platforms for antiaircraft guns. —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: history guns weather WWII Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Richard Kehl Once, when a GI was visiting Pablo Picasso during the liberation of France, he said that he could not understand the artist's paintings: "Why do you paint a person looking from the side and from the front at the same time?" Picasso asked, "Do you have a girlfriend?" "Yes," replied the soldier. "Do you have a picture of her?" The soldier pulled from his wallet a photograph of the girl. Picasso looked at it in mock astonishment and asked, "Is she so small? —Richard Kehl More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email [The philosopher] Wittgenstein writes about a man who, not being certain of an item he reads in the newspaper, buys one hundred copies of the paper to reassure himself of its truth. —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: truth man Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The fifteen-year-old daughter of a friend once addressed the old Carl Jung as follows: "Herr Professor, you are so clever. Could you please tell me the shortest path to my life's goal?" Without a moment's hesitation Jung replied, "The detour! —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: effort goals detour Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once, when a GI was visiting Pablo Picasso during the liberation of France, he said that he could not understand the artist's paintings: "Why do you paint a person looking from the side and from the front at the same time?" Picasso asked, "Do you have a girlfriend?" "Yes," replied the soldier. "Do you have a picture of her?" The soldier pulled from his wallet a photograph of the girl. Picasso looked at it in mock astonishment and asked, "Is she so small? —Richard Kehl More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[The philosopher] Wittgenstein writes about a man who, not being certain of an item he reads in the newspaper, buys one hundred copies of the paper to reassure himself of its truth. —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: truth man Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fifteen-year-old daughter of a friend once addressed the old Carl Jung as follows: "Herr Professor, you are so clever. Could you please tell me the shortest path to my life's goal?" Without a moment's hesitation Jung replied, "The detour! —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: effort goals detour Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “weather” My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. —Ronnie Shakes More about this quote Tags: hope humor time weather Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it. —Rebecca Johnson More about this quote Tags: weather Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. —Michael Pritchard More about this quote Tags: weather Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: weather Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel. —Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider More about this quote Tags: weather Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. —Ronnie Shakes More about this quote Tags: hope humor time weather Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it. —Rebecca Johnson More about this quote Tags: weather Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. —Michael Pritchard More about this quote Tags: weather Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: weather Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel. —Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider More about this quote Tags: weather Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email