Cantecleer Boeken Quotes & Sayings

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily. — Kristin Scott Thomas

I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security. — Margaret Cavendish

And I know Krisztina's days and nights, her body and her soul, as well as I know my own — Sandor Marai

You cannot have an integrated world and have your say all the time. America can lead the world towards that, but we cannot dominate and run the world in that direction. There is a big difference. — William J. Clinton

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living. — Roger Scruton

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived. — Joshua Rogers

Like when you wake up at night, and the only sounds you hear are the sounds inside your head. — Mark Haddon

A man's greatest fear from a woman is that she will laugh at him; a woman's fear is that a man will kill her. — Margaret Drabble

All the earth is a grave, and nought escapes it; nothing is so perfect that it does not fall and disappear. The rivers, brooks, fountains and waters flow on, and never return to their joyous beginnings; they hasten on to the vast realms of Tlaloc, and the wider they spread between their marges the more rapidly do they mould their own sepulchral urns. That which was yesterday is not to-day; and let not that which is to-day trust to live to-morrow. — Daniel G. Brinton

Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart. — Jeffrey Donovan

Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. ... The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written. — David Morrell

Books on the bookshelves
And stacked on the floor
Books kept in baskets
And propped by the door
Books in neat piles
And in disarray
Books tucked in closets
And books on display
Books filling crannies
And books packed in nooks
Books massed in windows
And mounded in crooks
Libraries beckon
And bookstores invite
But book-filled rooms welcome
Us back home at night! — L.R. Knost

America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing. — John Travolta

Nothing that comes easy in this world is worth a damn. — Woody Hayes