Behoorlijke Quotes & Sayings

The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man's sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too. — Roberto Bolano

You don't need to throw something away just because you're afraid of how it might turn out. — Jeanette Battista

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all. — Erica Jong

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. — Sarah Price

I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains, and then find somewhere where I can rest. In peace and quiet, without a lot of relatives prying around, and a string of confounded visitors hanging on the bell. I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it: and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Chacko had been a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and was permitted excesses and eccentricities nobody else was. He claimed to be writing a Family Biography that the Family would have to pay him not to publish. Ammu said that there was only one person in the family who was a fit candidate for biographical blackmail and that was Chacko himself. — Arundhati Roy

Don't worry, Mrs. Colder. For the most part, we keep him leashed and gagged. We only let him free when the cute little animal jokes are needed.

~Sherra Callahan (on Kane Tyler)~ — Lora Leigh

Any learning process that is not entirely invested in questions is under funded. — Ted Agon

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory. — Carly Fiorina

I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people. — Lewis Black

When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel. It does all sound the same, but what you can find once you go in - it's never-ending. So that's my love. — Brendan Gleeson

The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic. — Victor Hugo