Andre Bjerke Quotes & Sayings

Writers are cut open on the page. — A.D. Posey

A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd. — Andre Bjerke

Most people are more predetermined as to what is the human form and the human face than they are as to what are flowers, landscapes, still lifes. Not everybody. I remember one of the first exhibitions of Van Gogh, there was an American there and she said to her friend, I find these portraits of people quite interesting for I don't know what people are like but I don't at all like these flower pictures because I know very well what flowers are like.

Most people are not like that. I do not mean to say that they know people better than they know other things but they have stronger convictions about what people are than what other things are. — Gertrude Stein

Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time. — Karl Lagerfeld

Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil — Hesiod

Simon, stop!"
Someon was bending over a sprawled out Simon, reaching down and picking him up by the scruff of his neck. "Do you have a problem understanding simple English. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty. — John Jay

If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor. — Jen Lancaster

The first of all qualities of a general is courage. — David McCullough

I'm always on the road, and I drive rental cars. Sometimes I don't know what's going on with the car, and I'll drive for ten miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake. What kind of emergency is this? I need to not stop now. It's not really an emergency brake, it's an emergency make-the-car-smell-funny lever. — Mitch Hedberg

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked? — George Carlin

Saying NO is polite , possible and perfectly acceptable! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life. — Terry Goodkind

That made me hate you more. Happiness had no place in war — Kurt Vonnegut

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope. — Charles Dickens

We're all of us prospectors up here, eh, Tyler? Scratchin' for that... that one crack in the ground. Never have to scratch again. I'll let you in on a little secret, Tyler: the gold's not in the ground. The gold's not anywhere up here. The real gold is south of 60 - sittin' in livin' rooms, stuck facin' the boob tube, bored to death. Bored to death, Tyler...Boredom - that's what's wrong. And how do you beat boredom, Tyler?... Adventure. — Curtis Hanson