De Schrijver Ursel Quotes & Sayings

The walls that caged me were not of this world, but were within my mind. — J.D. Stroube

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it. — Aesop

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different. — Nancy Banks-Smith

[Uncentering the Earth] itself is uncentering in the best possible way. Vollmann is one of the deepest, most fully ensouled writers alive. — David Foster Wallace

There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962. — Priscilla Presley

The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses. — James Joyce

Alfred shook his balding head slowly, with quiet dignity. "You can't threaten me, Haplo. Sartan magic is different from Patryn magic, but it has the same roots and is just as powerful. I haven't used my magic as much as you've been forced by circumstances to use yours. But I am older than you. And you must concede that magic of any type is strengthened by age and by wisdom. — Margaret Weis

Hogan began when tastes were changing and people were moving away from clothes that were not so formal: Hogan caught the right moment. — Andrea Della Valle

Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning - ... — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets ... — Maria Edgeworth

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them. — Tallulah Bankhead

I nurtured my dinomania with documentaries, delighted in the dino-themed B movies I brought home from the video store, and tore up my grandparents' backyard in my search of a perfect Triceratops nest. Never mind that the classic three-horned dinosaur never roamed central New Jersey, or that the few dinosaur fossils found in the state were mostly scraps of skeletons that had been washed out into the Cretaceous Atlantic. My fossil hunter's intuition told me there just had to be a dinosaur underneath the topsoil, and I kept excavating my pit. That is, until I got the hatchet out of my grandfather's toolshed and tried to cut down a sapling that was in my way. My parents bolted out of the house and put a stop to my excavation. Apparently, I hadn't filled out the proper permits before I started my dig. — Brian Switek

What if at school you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to pain a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it ... Of course this sounds ridiculous, but this is how math is taught. — Edward Frenkel