Affligem Cafe Quotes & Sayings

As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander. — Henry David Thoreau

Our everyday "commonsense" knowledge as a human being is even greater; "street smarts" actually require substantially more of our neocortex than "book smarts." Including this brings our estimate to well over 100 million patterns, taking into account the redundancy factor of about 100. — Ray Kurzweil

She can feel it down to her very core - this is her time. She will not only climb mountains - she will move them too. — Lang Leav

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it. I don't keep regular hours. — Adam Rapp

Even when you fuck up, even when you fail everyone around you. You have to let them forgive you, and you have to forgive yourself. — Kit Rocha

All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did not breathe or think, but they grew and gave a sense of potential so much larger than whatever was written on their pages. — Tim Lebbon

Durga wore a simple sea-green dress and a lei of lotus flowers ... "Take this," it has no special power except that the blooms will not fade, but it will serve a purpose on your voyage. I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die." She placed the lei over my neck. "Dig down and grow strong roots, my daughter, for you will stretch forth, break out of the waters and find peace on the calm surface at last. You will discover that if you hadn't stretched, you would have drowned in the deep, never to blossom or share your gift with others. — Colleen Houck

The truth is that most writers are needy. — Stephen King

How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real. — Jaden Smith

Get used to disappointment. — William Goldman

I let people say and write what they want. — Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child. — Edward Zigler

Not flowers - never flowers in Terrasen. Instead, they carried small stones to graves to mark their visits, to tell the dead that they still remembered. — Sarah J. Maas