Groningen University Quotes & Sayings

Refuse to be called master, otherwise people will start thinking that whatever you say is right! Refuse to be called master! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on. — Jack White

As his other hand began to slip around her waist, his body brushed against hers, and there was no mistaking the
thick, hard ridge grazing her jean-clad bottom. Heavens, did that thing never subside? The rest of him might be mortal, but his immortal erection certainly didn't scan to have gotten the memo. — Karen Marie Moning

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless. — David Whyte

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press. — Lena Dunham

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. — Barbara Kingsolver

Minerva McGonagall was not immune to a secret amusement at the antics of rule-breakers. Nevertheless, she frequently questioned Dumbledore's policy of allowing Harry to run extreme risks, and bend many school rules, during his adolescence, often showing herself to be more protective of Harry than the then Headmaster. Harry had a claim on Minerva's affections, not only because he was the son of two of her all-time favourite students, but because he, like herself, had suffered serious bereavements. Although she neither spoiled nor favoured Harry when he was her student, she revealed the depth of her trust in him during the Battle of Hogwarts, at which time she supported him unequivocally even though she had never been fully in his or Dumbledore's confidence. — J.K. Rowling

When I started out, nearly every architect I knew was working in public practice; that's where the radical thinking was done. But, there's always a danger of looking back as our fathers did and saying, 'Things were better then.' — Richard Rogers

A real advantage to gettin' old is that the older ou get, the fewer people there are left alive who can refute anything you say! — Clark Crouch