Aukje Andringa Quotes & Sayings

Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [ ... ] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival. — Murray Kempton

It's not free - Somebody had to pay for it! — Angelo N. Dallas

If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed! — Gustave Flaubert

Messengers wait outside the door, to carry urgent orders for release. It is difficult, when the pen skips over a name, to associate it with the corpse it might belong to, tomorrow or the day after that. There is no sense of evil in the room, just tiredness and the aftertaste of petty squabbling. Camille drinks quite a lot of Fabre's brandy. Towards daybreak, a kind of dismal camaraderie sets in. — Hilary Mantel

Conservatives are always right about everything. We are. We are. — Monica Crowley

If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth? — Arthur Schopenhauer

My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people. — Kenneth Branagh

The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren't very lovable. — Aidan Chambers

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring. — Tom Brown Jr.

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself. — Spalding Gray

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies. — Trieste Kelly Dunn

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena. — William Cecil Dampier

The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love. — Erich Schiffmann

People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could. — Helena Bonham Carter