Amstel House Quotes & Sayings

One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world. — David O. Russell

Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships. — Catherynne M Valente

Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up. — R. Curtis Venture

The only thing He forgets is our sins. — Billy Graham

I prefer big Oprah. I know Oprah wants to be skinny Oprah, but her head is too gigantic to fit on a skinny body. She has to accept that, like Kirstie Alley, she was meant to be ... ahm ... voluptuous! — Kathy Griffin

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Date of our first anniversary, Jamie had been in the Bastille, and I ... I had been in — Diana Gabaldon

Angels and demons were identical
interchangeable archetypes
all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer. — Dan Brown

If you think this life is all there is," he said, "then self-sacrifice must seem to you sheer insanity. If you do not think so then it is only common sense. It all depends on your point of view." (Hilary Eliot to David Eliot, Chapter 9) — Elizabeth Goudge