Houttek Quotes & Sayings

Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. — Jared Diamond

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges. — Sam Taylor-Wood

I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper. — Cameron Crowe

My brand? My brand is taking bitches out and making them pay for dinner.
There is no problems. Only solutions. — Jacobus Gideon Louis Nieuwoudt

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary. — Libba Bray

Everyone knows that ghosts don't piss! — Tom Robbins

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention. — Alasdair MacIntyre

Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world. — Martin Freeman

Well, strangeness was hard to think about. Wonder grazes you like a bullet; it zips by and is gone, and all you really perceive is the zing as it goes past, or maybe the pain if it comes too close. It does no good to search for whatever it was, for it never lodges anywhere you can get a good look at it. The truly strange has no hooks of familiarity that one can catch hold of. — Sheri S. Tepper

Cotton is my life. — Billy Baldwin

I'm not her buddy. I'm her boyfriend, and I'll knock you the fuck out before you can scratch the paint. — Jamie McGuire

I try to muscle my way past but Eli's right-hand man, Pigpen, plants himself in front of me like the towering sack of testosterone and annoyance he is. — Katie McGarry

We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first. — Rick Yancey

The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ. — John L. Lewis

Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth? — Anne Frank