Durven Verleden Quotes & Sayings

Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times. — Liane Moriarty

To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving. — Gregory Benford

She said to me, "This is fun."
"It weirdly is," I said.
"Maybe these are our salad days."
"Huh?"
"You know. Happy."
"What's happy about a salad?"
She shrugged. "Ranch," she said. — Terry Pratchett

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. — Tadeusz Borowski

Paper is more patient than people. — Anne Frank

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map. — Richard Ford

I'm a religious person. I honestly believe we will see each other in heaven someday. — George Strait

Hey, Cammie... tell Suzie she's a lucky cat."

Have sexier words ever been spoken? I seriously think not! — Ally Carter

Are you surprised, as if it were a novelty, that after such long travel and so many changes of scene you have not been able to shake off the gloom and heaviness of your mind? You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate. [ ... ] Do you ask why such flight does not help you? It is because you flee along with yourself. You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you. — Seneca.

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious. — Helen Oyeyemi

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status. — John Szarkowski

I'm a dad now, so now I just don't care what I look like. Once you've created life, you just don't care what anyone thinks. — Tim Schafer

If awesome things in creation become your god, the God who created those things will not own your awe. Horizontal awe is meant to do one thing: stimulate vertical — Paul David Tripp

They are the efforts of someone who, overarced by stars that are human handiwork, and who, shelterless in this till now undreamt of sense and thus most uncannily in the open, goes with his very being into language, reality-wounded and reality-seeking. — Paul Celan