Herpen Netherlands Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody. — Swami Satchidananda

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down. — Peter Ustinov

How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact. — Andre Bazin

We is so much better than I. — James Patterson

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

So sometimes it is an outright manipulation like that, but most of the time I'm just, I'm creating a mood that is a place of comfort for the person and a way for our dialogue to be more fluid. — Carol Friedman

This thing called thinking, just as you think of it, the more you think of it, the best thinking can be NOT to think of it. — Jason Chan Chi-san

Put a scoop of ice cream on it?" she asked. "And coffee. Everyone want coffee?" She looked inquiringly at us, smiling in a way that made me decidedly nervous, especially after that "I can get us a body" remark, and I nodded. Coffee? Why not? — Kim Harrison

If it isn't on YouTube, it might as well have never happened. — Gordon Korman

Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals. — G. Willow Wilson

If the question was did we want to delay the revelation? ... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit. — William Mapother

You don't know what it's like! Hyperactive twins! When they turned three, my doctor prescribed Ritalin
I wouldn't dream of giving a drug to my children, but it does help when I take it myself. — Jane Wagner

When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it ... Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again. — Steve Jobs