Gerritszoon Type Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction. — Walter Moers

The church is God's elect that God wants to raise in the country to give hope to everyone — Sunday Adelaja

First rule of bathing," Gavril said. "If you can't smell yourself anymore, it's time to wash. — Brian McClellan

So rather than risk saying the wrong thing, I said nothing. — Patrick Rothfuss

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power. — Joyce Carol Oates

They're currently sulking, by the way, and comforting themselves by sending abusive e-mails to Bill Gates. — Simon R. Green

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. — Doris Lessing

Thought, I love thought.
But not the juggling and twisting of already existent ideas
I despise that self-important game.
Thought is the welling up of unknown life into consciousness,
Thought is the testing of statements on the touchstone of consciousness,
Thought is gazing onto the face of life, and reading what can be read,
Thought is pondering over experience, and coming to conclusion.
Thought is not a trick, or an exercise, or a set of dodges,
Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending. — D.H. Lawrence

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together. — Michael Caine

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people. — Abraham Lincoln

I'm not one to attribute every activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also for man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet. — Sarah

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It's been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore - -a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that. — Win Butler