Hoogtepunten Quotes & Sayings

Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war. — Shel Silverstein

So heaven was this vague, uneasy, almost cartoonish concept, a confusing cultural mash up of puffy clouds, harps, winged Angel's, Golden sunlight, a giant hand that may or may not belong to a giant man with a flowing white beard named God. — Paul Tremblay

Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls. — David Letterman

Publicity is the soul of stupidity, but we must not forget that we live in a stupid universe, so publicity is the engine of our world. — Carl William Brown

I never did heroin, because I thought that meant I was doing heavy drugs, which shows you the insanity of doing drugs. I probably should have done heroin, because I understand heroin actually makes you feel good. Cocaine just makes you stupid. — Tommy Shaw

[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

At some point Billy realized he was expecting the president to act, well, embarrassed? Ashamed? For how fucked up everything obviously was. But the commander in chief seemed well pleased with the state of things. — Ben Fountain

If your mind is only engaged in the external reality, your life remains far from the existential truth of life. — Roshan Sharma

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience. — Edmund White

To read is to empower,
To empower is to write,
To write is to influence,
To influence is to change,
To change is to live. — Jane Evershed

Because the conversation in heaven is never revealed to Job or his friends, they understandably misjudge precisely what is at stake. This hidden information is especially poignant because, as Job argues his case before God, he believes that he can "win" if he can force God into court to account for himself, to give an explanation for his actions. In reality, Job has nothing to win because he is not on trial. — John H. Walton

My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz. — Tom Hollander

Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation. — Steve Symms