Beeckman Matrassen Quotes & Sayings

After all, isn't life always a matter of picking out the beautiful from the hideous?"
"If only all things were beautiful," Pere said.
What then, dear friend? We strive to increase beauty in this world of ours. But we'll never eliminate the ugly. Should we even hope to? You're a master painter. Isn't the figure meaningless without ground? Without ugliness for contrast, how can we perceive beauty? Isn't it ugliness that gives beauty meaning? — Victor Milan

It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team. — Jerry West

Circe's got everything on you, bitch. — Alyse M. Gardner

It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death. — Frank Smythe

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these ... sometimes led her to walk into doors. — Terry Pratchett

Oh thrice and four times happy ... those who plant cabbages. — Francois Rabelais

Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines. — Jon Ronson

Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior. — Gail Simone

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. — Leon Kass

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect. — Saul Williams

I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months. — Peter Scott

The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point. — Albert Camus

For the first time, I see her. Fucking Sophia. I don't see her as a means to an end - a potential way to take down the bastard who killed my uncle. I see her. I see her as a woman, and she is beautiful. — Callie Hart