Andries Van Quotes & Sayings

We live in the age of the city. The city is everything to us it consumes us and for that reason we glorify it
-Onookome Okome — Mike Davis

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book. — Daniel Ionson

In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility. — MercyMe

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt. — Boris Spassky

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid. — Gustavo Perez Firmat

What is this self inside us, this silent observer,
Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us
And urge us to futile activity,
And in the end, Judge us still more severely,
For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us? — T. S. Eliot

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine. — Andy Warhol

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men. — Chris Rock

Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence. — Jackson Katz

He'd learned that lies were only dangerous if you sometimes told the truth. — Maggie Stiefvater

Babaji's spiritual state is beyond human comprehension. The dwarfed vision of men cannot pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment. It is inconceivable. — Sri Yukteswar Giri

The scientific truth is forged in the fire of experiments, — Zygmunt Miloszewski