Commissie Borstlap Quotes & Sayings

I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people. — Darlene Cates

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel. — Solomon Burke

And that fear I'd felt, the disembodying confusion, seemed to be a drug I was now addicted to, because moving through the ordinary world- watching CNN, reading the Times, walking to Sant Ambroeus to have a coffee at the bar- made me feel exhausted, even depressed. Perhaps I was suffering from the same problem as the man who'd sailed around the world and now on land, facing his farmhouse, his wife and kids, understood that the constancy of home stretching out before him like a dry flat field was infinitely more terrifying than any violent squall with thirty-foot swells. — Marisha Pessl

Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test. — Morgan Spurlock

I've always had an ear for music so one day I sat at the piano and picked out some notes. I tried to improve, but without formal instruction, there was only so much I could learn. When I went off to school, I demanded my studies include piano lessons. By the time I was ten, I could play Mozart concertos. — Magda Alexander

He did not accept the good news of God; he strained it to his heart, and was jubilant over it. — George MacDonald

She liked to laugh that a young widow who'd just come into a good fortune must be, to misquote Jane Austen, in want of a husband. — Jennifer Ashley

Yes, I played inside the Taj Mahal, but the experience was also a quiet, inner experience. — Paul Horn