Gedichten Overlijden Quotes & Sayings

The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetic I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature. — William Petty

Art destroys the life. — Irving Stone

I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating. — Kurt Vonnegut

You are what you allow the Lord to make you. — Chris Heimerdinger

Hyperrealism is more about objectifying ... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens ... all my paintings are about an object being viewed through human eyes. — Liu Dan

Delia realised you should see plenty of people you love, because the meaningful conversations don't happen in the first twenty four hours together, or forty-eight, or even the first few days. They came at moments like this. — Mhairi McFarlane

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now. — Billy Corgan

The conviction is well founded, which the sight of noble conduct calls forth, that the spirit of love ... can never pass away and become nothing. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others. — Twyla Tharp

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth. — Katherine Heigl

You spend so much time being upset about being in the hospital in the first place that it is almost jarring to realize how many people don't ever leave. I could have been just like his sister. I could have never woken up. But I did. I'm one of the ones who did. I consider for a moment what would have happened if I'd been standing just a little bit farther in the road or a little bit off to the side. What if I'd been thrown to the left instead of to the right? Or if the car had been going five miles per hour faster? I might not have ever woken up. Today could have been my funeral. How weird is that? How absolutely insane is that? The difference between life and death could be as simple and as uncomfortably slight as a step you take in either direction. Which means that I am here today, alive today, because I made the right choices, however brief and insignificant they felt at the time. I made the right choices. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence. — Arthur Schopenhauer