Aardige Woorden Quotes & Sayings

When he turned and walked into the living room he knew instantly why it was that he hadn't wanted to come here, and that he ought to get out as soon as he possibly could. There, staring him in the face, was everything he'd been deprived of for the last five years. — William Maxwell

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works. — Eugene Delacroix

If you are continually judging and criticizing yourself while trying to be kind to others, you are drawing artificial boundaries and distinctions that only lead to feelings of separation and isolation. — Kristin Neff

Jesus found His identity in Scripture and always directed these people to the Scriptures and the prophecies that spoke of Him. — K.P. Yohannan

How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it at all? How many would join? — Trebor Healey

mid-descent testing out some unassisted flight epiphany that came to him as he slept. — Allan J. Ashinoff

Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids. — Richie Havens

Maybe, I think, I don't have to be great at this; maybe I just have to be good enough. — Jon Krakauer

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government. — Abigail Adams

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems. — Jim Harrison

The movie was an enormous hit in 1927. With Wings, it confirmed Bow as Hollywood's leading female star. She received forty thousand letters a week - more than the population of a fair-sized town. In the summer of 1927, her career seemed set to go on indefinitely. In fact, it was nearly at an end. Winsome and enchanting as she was to behold, her Brooklyn accent was the vocal equivalent of nails on a blackboard, and in the new world of talking pictures that would never do. — Bill Bryson

It's tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you know you're not quite there and you're redoing it and redoing it and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard. — Elizabeth Strout

Good mother knows her children, knows everything about them, the good and the bad. A great mother loves them regardless. — Melody Anne