Bertram Naftel > Bertram's Quotes

“With our beloved prairie voles the female has her ovulation induced by the smell of male urine. It’s a sure sign there’s a male nearby and so her body gets ready for mating. The exact opposite of a human female getting a whiff of urinals in a nightclub and her vagina falling off in disgust”
― Sara Pascoe

“The world is full of magic. You’ve just got to learn how to access it.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“The receiving radio operator immediately said, “Please tell Sunray Delta Six that Sunray Six is being located and informed immediately. Expect his answer very soon!” A short time later, Harry Smith was summoned to the HQ Delta Company radio. He went to it and was told, “Sir, Lieutenant Colonel Townsend is waiting to speak to you.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

“God has been there with us every step of the way.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“#metooasachild”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

“The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“Mr. Park’s home, which doubled as his office, was small, dark, and stank of old man. Although Mr. Park was not that old, he was cheap and unmarried. And that smell, and the smell of old man, are easily confused.”
― J.K. Franko

“They remained imprisoned in the CICU, kept alive in physicality by mechanical devices and medicinal support, inexorably suffering. I revered their resiliency, though I struggled to understand whether they were truly resilient or if this was a descriptive term I used to assure myself that what we were doing was just. Could they merely represent physical beings at this point, molecular derivatives of carbon and water, void of souls that had moved on months prior once the universe had delivered their inevitable fate, simply kept alive by us physicians, who ourselves clutched desperately to the most favored of our prehistoric binary measures of success: life?”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

“Вечерта дойдоха в дома ми, за да си изберат по някоя книга, и така хора, които до този момент бяха взимали в ръка само Библията, каталози за семена и вестник „Свинар“, видяха един различен вид четива. Тук Далси намери своя Чарлс Лам, а Изола попадна на „Бруленихълмове“. Аз си избрах „Записките на клуба „Пикуик“, като се надявах Дикенс да повдигне духа ми, както и стана.

После всички се прибраха по къщите си да четат. Първите няколко сбирки проведохме заради коменданта, а след това продължихме да се събираме, защото ни беше приятно. Нямахме опит в литературните клубове, затова си измислихме свои правила и се редувахме да говорим за книгите, които сме прочели. В началото се опитвахме да бъдем спокойни и безпристрастни, но това не изтрая дълго, всеки се стремеше да убеди останалите да прочетат книгата, което му е харесала. Когато някое издание минеше през ръцете на няколко души, вече избухваха спорове, които ни носеха голяма наслада. Четяхме, обсъждахме, карахме се и така си ставахме по-близки. И други хора пожелаха да се присъединят към нас и сбирките ни се превърнаха в светли, изпълнени с оживление мигове, в които почти забравяхме за мрака навън.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."
"Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline.
"Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Some men are born posthumously.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“The happiness which they (the philosophers) meant was not a life of rapture; but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the active over the passive, and having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing. A life thus composed, to those who have been fortunate enough to obtain it, has always appeared worthy of the name of happiness.”
― John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism