Anneke Van Giersbergen Quotes & Sayings

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared. — Shania Twain

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head. — John Scalzi

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.
Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore.
The two are rarely compatible. — Neil Gaiman

This is a life you do not understand. Yes, your home is in the city, and you have furnished it with vanities, with pictures and books; but you have a wife and a servant and a hundred expenses. Asleep or awake you must keep pace with the world and are never at peace. I have peace. You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. If you ask me intellectual questions and try to trip me up, then I will reply, for example, that God is the origin of all things and that truly men are mere specks and atoms in the universe. You are no wiser than I. But if you should go so far as to ask me what is eternity, then I know quite as much in this matter, too, and reply thus: Eternity is merely unborn time, nothing but unborn time. — Knut Hamsun

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season. — Nadine Gordimer

I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government. — Roy Spencer

Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers to be both original and highly exemplary. — Dean Keith Simonton

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree — Thomas Paine

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work. — George Carlin