Blijven Ademen Quotes & Sayings

She didn't hear anything except a muted fuzzy silence. It was the first time in days and days she hadn't heard the ocean and the rain and the wind. She closed her eyes. Quiet. That would have been enough. For the scientist to have given her this minute of peace would have been enough. Then she heard a coo. Another longer coo, sliding from high to low. Oh, it was saying. Oh. Is it you? In answer came more ghostly, plaintive calls. The dolphins sang to each other. The songs pierced her chest like hot sticks, each call sharper than the last. She hoped Doug could hear them. She began to cry. — Diana Wagman

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? — L.M. Montgomery

A Thunderstorm In Town
She wore a 'terra-cotta' dress,
And we stayed, because of the pelting storm,
Within the hansom's dry recess,
Though the horse had stopped; yea, motionless
We sat on, snug and warm.
Then the downpour ceased, to my sharp sad pain,
And the glass that had screened our forms before
Flew up, and out she sprang to her door:
I should have kissed her if the rain
Had lasted a minute more. — Thomas Hardy

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It's the astonishment of being myself — Jorge Luis Borges

Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines. — Henry David Thoreau

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales. — Val McDermid

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder. — Aaron Sorkin

Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss. — W. Edwards Deming

The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college. — Johnny Mize

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers. — Kenneth A. Bruffee

Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers. — C. G. Jung