Handelend Voorwerp Quotes & Sayings

I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man; I am a vegetable man, anyway. — Magic Johnson

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life. — Steven Pinker

You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers? — Ray Bradbury

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union. — Edward Albee

Hickory dickory dock my daddy's nuts from shellshock. — Dalton Trumbo

If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education" ... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board ... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process. — Paul Krugman

Worry comes from a lack of purpose. It comes from not having a big "why" for your life. — Bruce Van Horn

This was a clever man, as clever as Alfred, and he knew that weakness invited war. — Bernard Cornwell

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. — Daniel Webster

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety. — Daniel H. Wilson

My dear, do not be hard upon me," said poor St. John; "I acknowledge, indeed, that it was my fault." "It was not your fault - but I don't blame anybody. There was illness and weakness, and some people can and some people can't," said Cicely, with that mercy and toleration which are always, I fear, more or less, the offspring of contempt. "Let — Mrs. Oliphant

My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well. — John Barrasso