Bekkum Memorial Library Quotes & Sayings

Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer. — David Hare

In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company. — Marsha Norman

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money. — Beryl Bainbridge

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain. — Nigel Farage

They taught me longing - Sehnsucht; made me for good or ill, and before I was six years old, a votary of the Blue Flower. — Alister E. McGrath

Most interesting things in our lives happens in our absence — Salman Rushdie

Where ever you are accepted, stay there. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Christian is not free to do what the Bible forbids. Christian freedom does not entail the right to fornicate or to steal or to lie or to persist in an unforgiving attitude or to do anything else the Scriptures explicitly prohibit. And a person who lovingly points this out to you is not a legalist for having done so! — Sam Storms

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person. — Margaret Drabble

The world is awful, yes, but it is not only awful. It is wonderful as well. — Matt Rogers

What am I lying here for? ... We are lying here as though we had a chance of enjoying a quiet time ... Am I waiting until I become a little older? — Xenophon

His voice, with some faint Irish melody running through it, wooed the world, yet she felt the layer of hardness in him, of self-control and of self-discipline, her own virtues. Oh, she chose him, and Nicole, lifting her head saw her choose him, heard a little sigh at the fact that he was already possessed. — F Scott Fitzgerald

For every un-universe, then, an un-philosophy that must also negate itself. — Eugene Thacker

Plate, nor did Mrs. Bates, who had once wept when we set — Jeffrey Eugenides

It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness. — Edward Gibbon