Dialect West Vlaamse Quotes & Sayings

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M. — Elmore Leonard

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.' — Stewart Udall

The thing about living with a death sentence for so long is you tend to miss the moment life starts to get better because you're so ready for it to get much, much worse. — John Goode

I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more. — Simone De Beauvoir

All libraries, everywhere, are connected by the bookworm holes in space created by the strong space-time distortions found around any large collections of books. Only a very few librarians learn the secret, and there are inflexible rules about making use of the fact. Because it amounts to time travel, and time travel causes big problems. — Terry Pratchett

There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next. — Paul Simon

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes. — Dar Williams

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. — Aldous Huxley

One after another, like dominoes set up and knocked back down, they climbed on top of the bridge railing, balanced, and jumped.
No, they didn't jump. Jump implies an understanding of gravity and a knowledge that up is only temporary. With spring-loaded legs and arms outstretched like Superman, those young men and women didn't jump. They launched. — Kate Karyus Quinn

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures. — Alexander Pope

War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness. — Prince Hassan Bin Talal

If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version. — Walter Hill

UTSL, which Maxine at first takes for an anagram of LUST or possibly SLUT but later learns is Unix for Use The Source, Luke. — Thomas Pynchon

No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli. — Saul David