Griffioen Blankenberge Quotes & Sayings

Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything ... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs. — Mallory Jansen

In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff. — Big Sean

To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal. — Robert De Niro

I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama has who are not black, it would lead one to the conclusion that millions of Americans are in fact not burdened by the albatross of racism. — Henry Rollins

I can feel his soul through his lips. It's telling me a story of agony over how long it's waited for this moment and how it never wants it to end. — Tara Elizabeth

I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives. — James L. Brooks

We want to get behind the beauty, but it is only a surface. It is like a mirror that reflects to us our own desire for good. It is a sphinx, an enigma, a sorrowfully irritating mystery. We want to feed on it, but it is only an object we can look on; it appears to us from a certain distance. The great sorrow of human life is knowing that to look and to eat are two different operations. Only on the other side of heaven, where God lives, are they one and the same operation. Children already experience this sorrow when they look at a cake for a long time and nearly regret eating it, but are powerless to help themselves. Maybe the vices, depravities and crimes are nearly always or even always in their essence attempts to eat beauty, to eat what one can only look at. Eve initiated this. If she lost our humanity by eating a fruit, the reverse attitude - looking at a fruit without eating it - must be what saves. — Simone Weil