Instrumenten Zelf Quotes & Sayings

Well, legends are many-legged beasties, aye? But they generally have at least one foot on the truth. — Diana Gabaldon

I used to hope that if we had to give up our old life, we'd get a new one. — Jodi Picoult

If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice. — Elvis Presley

Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. — Muhammad Ali

We are good at stories. We hoard them, like an old woman in a room full of boxes, but now and then we pull out our best, and spread them out. We talk of the bad years when the cotton didn't open, and the day my cousin Wanda was washed in the Blood. We buff our beloved ancestors until they are smooth of sin, and give our scoundrels a hard shake, although sometimes we can't remember exactly which is who. — Rick Bragg

Study was never a one-way thing. A man might spend his life peering at the private life of elementary particles and then find he either knew who he was or where he was, but not both. — Terry Pratchett

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. — Marcel Proust

(about sailors) Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them - the ship; and so is their country - the sea. One ship is very much like another, and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny. For the rest, after his hours of work, a casual stroll or a casual spree on shore suffices to unfold for him the secret of a whole continent, and generally he finds the secret not worth knowing. The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. — Joseph Conrad

Absolute certainity might seem comforting, but is actually proof that you've given up — Kirsten Beyer

The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ. — Johannes P. Muller

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. — Max Eastman

Can we all say 'yay, we waved our dicks around,' and eat our damn dinner already?"
"I think I like your sister," I murmured.
"Don't worry, she doesn't like you," Shelby murmured back. — Seanan McGuire