Hoortoestellen Quotes & Sayings

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. — Jane Birkin

NEVER FORGET YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. STRIVE TO BE WORTHY. NORMALCY IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS. — Rick Riordan

What is a look of absolute fear? Popescu asked. The doctor belched a few times, shifted in his chair, and answered that it was a kind of look of mercy, but empty, as if all that were left of mercy, after a mysterious voyage, was the skin, as if mercy were a skin of water, say, in the hands of a Tatar horseman who gallops away over the steppe and dwindles untile he vanishes, and then the horseman returns, or the ghost of the horseman returns, or his shadow, or the idea of him, and he has the skin, empty of water now, because he drank it all during his trip, or he and his horse drank it, and the skin is empty now, it's a normal skin, an empty skin, because after all the abnormal thing is a skin swollen with water, but this skin swollen with water, this hideous skin swollen with water doesn't arouse fear, doesn't awaken it, much less isolate it, but the empty skin does, and that was what he saw in the mathematician's face, absolute fear. — Roberto Bolano

Here is the hardest hit of all, O'Malley," Harry said. "Here is the very worst thing I can do to you."
He held out his hand, as if asking for a handshake.
He was asking for a handshake.
Conor responded almost automatically, putting out his own hand and shaking Harry's before he even thought about what he was doing. They shook hands like two businessmen at the end of a meeting.
"Goodbye, O'Malley," Harry said, looking into Conor's eyes. "I no longer see you. — Patrick Ness

Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time. — Tavi Gevinson

Almost pedantically, she added: They're not really bombs
they're acoustic provocations. — J.G. Ballard

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms — Bertrand Russell

Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value? — Frederick Carl Frieseke

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them. — Tessa Thompson

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing. — Miranda Richardson

In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over. — Desmond Tutu

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. — Oscar Wilde