Gijsbrechts Houthandel Quotes & Sayings

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly. — Kia Carrington-Russell

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way. — Joe DiMaggio

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation. — Edward Weston

There's no half-assing anything you do if you want to do it well. — Delmon Young

You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream. — Garth Risk Hallberg

'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second ... — Clive Woodward

Yeah, I'd rather be a flower that only blossoms once before it dies, and then nourishes the ground with its remains - than this empty soul that's stuck in a dead shell. — Michelle Horst

Man is the centrality of God's purpose on earth — Sunday Adelaja

One morning in April, I woke up a little sick. I lay there looking at shadows on the white plaster ceiling. I remembered a long time ago, when I lay in bed beside my mother, watching lights from the street move across the ceiling and down the walls. I felt the sharp nostalgia of train whistles, piano music down a city street, burning leaves. A mild degree of junk sickness always brought me the magic of childhood. It never fails, I thought, just like a shot; I wonder if all junkies score for this wonderful stuff. — William S. Burroughs

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. — Hunter S. Thompson

When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage. — Grace Ogot

If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks. — Aeschylus

Mason prefers to switch over to Tea, when it is Dixon's turn to begin shaking his head. "Can't understand how anyone abides that stuff." "How so?" Mason unable not to react. "Well, it's disgusting, isn't it? Half-rotted Leaves, scalded with boiling Water and then left to lie, and soak, and bloat?" "Disgusting? this is Tea, Friend, Cha, - what all tasteful London drinks, - that," pollicating the Coffee-Pot, "is what's disgusting." "Au contraire," Dixon replies, "Coffee is an art, where precision is all, - Water-Temperature, mean particle diameter, ratio of Coffee to Water or as we say, CTW, and dozens more Variables I'd mention, were they not so clearly out of thy technical Grasp, - — Thomas Pynchon

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it. — Chuck Schumer