Controversial Sayings

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her...

It is not necessary for the public superego to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

I suffered two grave accidents in my life... One in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

Nick Barmby is up there with Zinedine Zidane, Paolo Maldini and Ronaldo [Nazario].

I don't sing to sound like nobody. I sing to sound like Ray Charles.

I believe the power to make money is a gift from God... to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.

I don't think any sport should take itself so seriously that it can't laugh at itself.

I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either.

I was born with something that appealed to an audience at that particular time. I can't explain it any other way.

When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do.

Africa proper has no history as it is not a historical continent and has nothing to show in the way of development.

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means.

The atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture is one reason for the bitter hatred which the preachers of the most extreme individualism, above all Nietzsche, harbour against the metropolis.