Cursistenportaal Quotes & Sayings

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook. — Salman Rushdie

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath. — Paul Kropp

When a writer is born into a family, Czeslaw Milosz once famously said, the family is finished. You could forget about having any more secrets. You could forget about hiding what you didn't want others to know. You were going to be exposed, hung out to air, and by a traitor from within. But later I wondered, Is it the family that's really finished or simply the writer's place within it? Could a family still be a family with parts missing? — Judith Freeman

But as my mother always said: You never know what's cooking in someone else's pot. — Greg Iles

I have a high tolerance for pain, but a low tolerance for discomfort. — Maria Semple

Every vice is already a punishment in itself ... you don't need a ticket on top of it. — Doug Stanhope

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. — Charles Inglis

And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car. — Murray Walker

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense. — Casey Affleck

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge