Dertigjarige Quotes & Sayings

These mistakes were heart-breaking. And yet, because people knew how easily they could happen , because they didn't go around with the illusion that they understood perfectly the things other people said., they were used to interrupting each other to ask if they'd understood correctly. Sometimes these misunderstandings were even desirable, since they gave people a reason to say, Forgive me, I was only scratching my nose. Of course I know I have always been right to love you. — Nicole Krauss

If wine is fruit, then vodka must be a vegetable. — Jann Arden

And within the house
ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
fury is lapping the walls,
dishes crack on the shelves,
a strangler needs my throat,
the daughter has ceased to eat anything ... — Anne Sexton

He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him — Jose Mourinho

The real danger of the gay movement is its necessary goal of the elimination of this moral system in order to achieve this [sexual freedom] — Scott Lively

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished. — Saadi

For the antifragile, shocks bring more benefits (equivalently, less harm) as their intensity increases (up to a point). — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Damn all false dichotomies to hell — D. A. Carson

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger. — Mickey Spillane

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

He'll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s'long as they've got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren' ... well ... all tha' respectable. — J.K. Rowling

The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful. — Jonathan Zittrain