Blommaert Lenaerts Quotes & Sayings

The funny thing about children is that, whichever room we're in, that's where they'll be. If I'm in the bath, they'll want to be in there too, playing with the toothbrush pot or brushing my hair. — Keeley Hawes

You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right? — Terry Pratchett

The more I see of unmechanized places and people the more conviced I become that machines have done incalculable damage by unbalancing the relationship between Man and Nature. — Dervla Murphy

These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar ethnic cuisine; your diaspora , from what I understand, is mostly in Southern California, three time zones removed from the national media in New York; and you don't have a recognizable, long-simmering conflict like the one between the Israelis and the Palestinians, where people in the richer nations can take sides and argue over at the dinner table. The best you can do is get the United Nations involved, as in East Timor. Maybe they'll send troops."
"We don't want the United Nations" Mr. Nanabragov said. "We don't want Sri Lankan troops patrolling our streets. We're better tan that. We want America. — Gary Shteyngart

It's no coincidence it's the gurus on mountains who're wise. You get to the top: you're already theirs. — David Foster Wallace

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there. — Brad Pitt

Great. Men affectionately attacked me with sticks to show their admiration. — Katherine Pine

chances. I want to make sure that Dan Mercer never hurts anyone ever again." "By killing — Harlan Coben

The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger. — Nicolas Winding Refn