Brygida Deriemaker Quotes & Sayings

He looks at Mama out of the corner of his eye, again surprised by how little she is. As if all of her life has been a slow process of shrinkage.
But just what is that shrinkage?
Is it the real shrinkage of a person abandoning his adult dimensions and starting on the long journey through old age and death toward distances where there is only a nothingness without dimension? — Milan Kundera

Every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with "allergies" to dairy and wheat - cheese and bread basically - but also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed "allergies," I believe, to the foods they had seen their own mothers fearing and loathing as diet fads passed through their homes. I could've strangled their mothers for saddling these girls with the idea that food is an enemy - some of them only eight years old and already weird about wanting a piece of bread - and I would've liked to bludgeon them, too, for forcing me to participate in their young daughters' fucked-up relationship with food. — Gabrielle Hamilton

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough. — David Luiz

Most people want to be perceived as Katana swords, but they don't spend enough time in the forge to even be butter knives. — Jason Taylor

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them. — Bette Midler

The truth is never pretty. — Gerard Butler

That moment when a knot forms in your throat, but you choose to throw your head back and laugh instead. — Christy Hall

It has been asserted that our century is characterized by an entirely new phenomenon: the appearance of people incapable of relating to God. As a result of spiritual and social developments, it is said, we have reached the stage where a kind of person has developed in whom there is no longer any starting point for the knowledge of God. — Pope Benedict XVI