Gaatjes Quotes & Sayings

You never did ... anything else with Ren?"
I knew he wasn't talking about me painting him and stuff. "Why would I want him when I got you?" And then I got worried, 'cause I wasn't sure if I still had Larry or not. — J.L. Merrow

The following year, on June 20, 1947, not suspecting what was about to happen, Bugsy Siegel was sitting on a couch in the living room of Virginia Hill's home at 810 Linden Drive in Beverly Hills. As he was reading a newspaper, an assassin fired a number of shots, from a rifle, through the front window. Siegel was shot twice in the head, with one bullet exiting his skull near the bridge of his nose, causing his left eye to be blown out of its socket. He was also hit twice in the torso. His death was instantaneous and the graphic photos of his bullet-riddled body made headline news. Although there were enough suspects to go around, Eddie Cannizzaro, the "Cat Man," a connected west coast mobster, made a deathbed confession that he was the one who carried out the contract. Although the case isn't closed, it is cold and will most likely remain so, as it rests on the desk of Detective Les Zoeller of the Los Angeles Police Department. — Hank Bracker

Social scientists have determined that we accept inner responsibility for a behavior when we think we have chosen to perform it in the absence of strong outside pressures. A — Robert B. Cialdini

The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted. — Elisabeth Elliot

The cancer of time is eating us away — Henry Miller

I'm not wearing a golden sombrero. — Charlie Sheen

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world? — Peter Abelard

When you think about it, the Big Bang's a big like school, isn't it?
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Well, I mean to say, one day we'll all leave here and become scientists and bank clerks and driving instructors and hotel managers
the fabric of society, so to speak. But in the meantime, that fabric, that is to say, us, the future, is crowded into one tiny little point where none of the laws of society applies, viz., this school.
-Ruprecht — Paul Murray

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet. — Melissa Etheridge

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue — Karl Lagerfeld

Yes. Everyone needs to find the one thing that brings out her passion. It's what we do and share with the world that matters. — Beth Hoffman

But, as Paul is at pains to stress, the law is good, and just, and holy.50 And we need to understand, sense, feel, and then delight in the grace of law.51 For unless we are persuaded that God has shown his grace in his law as well as in his Son, all we will hear and see at Sinai is thunder and lightning. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

In 2004 Fox News reported that the widow married the man who'd been given her first husband's heart. Her new husband went on to kill himself in the same way as the heart's first "owner." At the age of thirty-nine, Cheryl was widowed for the second time. De Telegraaf didn't conclude from this that it might not have been easy to live with Cheryl. — D.F. Swaab

Much discomposed, Freddy made inarticulate noises. — Georgette Heyer