Andriessen Quotes & Sayings

Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms. — Rachel Caine

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. — Patti Smith

Good news is, I'm still alive. Bad news is, Bitches be crazy. — Ksenia Solo As Kenzi

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?' — Albert Brooks

Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won. — David Walker

My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All of a sudden, I just started to notice that the teacher was looking at me, and all the kids were wondering what I was doing. I suddenly felt really strange. — Dash Mihok

I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book
everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside. (from Parade Magazine interview, 5/26/13) — Stephen King

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up. — Lee Kuan Yew

Expertise gives you enough insight to reinvent what everyone else assumes is the truth. Sure, it's possible to randomly challenge the conventions of your field and luckily find a breakthrough. It's far more likely, though, that you will design a great Web site or direct a powerful movie or lead a breakthrough product development if you understand the status quo better than anyone else. Beginner's luck is dramatically overrated. Emotional — Seth Godin

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile. — Kelly Reilly

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a tactful publican, it has as few opinions as possible. Many liberals suspect passionate convictions are latently authoritarian. But liberalism should surely be a passionate conviction. Liberals are not necessarily lukewarm. Only the more macho leftist suspects that they have no balls. You can be ardently neutral, and fiercely indifferent. — Terry Eagleton

Truth is not determined by a majority vote. — Pope Benedict XVI

You can flatten the paper and try and make it as straight as you want, but it will never be perfect again. — Auliq Ice