Gijsbrechts Heist Quotes & Sayings

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but - mainly - to ourselves. — Julian Barnes

There is often an inverse correlation between genius and personal hygiene. — Helen Simonson

Still, he couldn't reconcile with the way he felt every time their eyes met, a feeling he had never forgotten that resonated with his very being. — Jennifer Silverwood

I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and what I want a scene to achieve, and I think that the psychological realism arises from that. — Curtis Sittenfeld

What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can. — Earl Felton

When action replaces reaction, change happens — Charles F. Glassman

Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it. — Tina Weymouth

Who lives inside your head? The hero of your story OR The victim of someone else's? — Tony Curl

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. — Stanley Walker

Sept.17 (1780). When we call loudly thro' the speaking-trumpet to Timothy ( the tortoise), he does not seem to regard the noise. Sept.18. Timothy eats heartily. Oct.3. No ring-ouzels seen this autumn yet. Timothy very dull. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the most pornographic imagination. But photographs dare to be real. No matter how contrived or constructed they are, there's that damn body staring you in the face. — Susie Bright