Centraal Museum Quotes & Sayings

We are but two islands. At times we may touch, but ever does the current flow between us. — N.J. Greenfield

We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Grimthorpe (v.) To restore or renovate an ancient building with excessive spending rather than with skill. Grimthorpe is a more or less eponymous word, taken from the title of Sir Edmund Beckett (the first Lord Grimthorpe), a lawyer and horologist in London, who also enjoyed attempting restorations of old buildings. His efforts did not meet with widespread approval, and gave birth to this word. Grinagog — Ammon Shea

Are you scared of me now?" She wanted the truth.
"More than ever." He had lowered his guard, putting himself at her mercy, because running away had only served to make him understand that he could never run away from who he was. — Llarjme

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body. — Jeremy Collier

The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along. — Adam Schlesinger

These records, however much or however little of real life may lie at the back of them, are not
an attempt to disguise or to palliate this widespread sickness of our times. They are an attempt to
present the sickness itself in its actual manifestation. They mean, literally, a journey through hell,
a sometimes fearful, sometimes courageous journey through the chaos of a world whose souls
dwell in darkness, a journey undertaken with the determination to go through hell from one end
to the other, to give battle to chaos, and to suffer torture to the full. — Hermann Hesse

Don't think or judge,' I said. 'Just listen. — Sarah Dessen

Beauty is at once a royal path to God and an impediment to reaching God if it is taken as a god in itself. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs. — Emily Carr

I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. — George W. Bush

You can't live your life in a bubble, Charlie. And you can't live Evan's life for him. He won't thank you if you try to wrap him in bubble wrap and set him on a shelf. — Tamara Hoffa

Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment — Thich Nhat Hanh