Borkelmans Quotes & Sayings

What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man? — Amos Bronson Alcott

(That was a cinematic trick adapted for print. Death wasn't talking to the princess. He was actually in his study, talking to Mort. But it was quite effective, wasn't it? It's probably called a fast dissolve, or a crosscut/zoom. Or something. An industry where a senior technician is called a Best Boy might call it anything.) — Terry Pratchett

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. — Olympia Brown

The recognition factor is so much higher when I'm a redhead, so when I'm a blonde I can pass under the radar a lot more easily. — Cynthia Nixon

Coleridge wrote, Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life. — Sidney Sheldon

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again. — Joel Madden

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits. — Kathy Griffin