Interessante Onderwerpen Quotes & Sayings

One picture is worth 1,000 denials. — Ronald Reagan

Religions do make claims about the universe
the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins

The difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating writer has a better nose for what genuinely excites him, he is hotter on the trail, he has a better instinct for what is truly alive in him. The worse writer may seem to be more sensible in many ways, but he is less sensible in this vital matter: he cannot distinguish what is full of life from what is only half full or empty of it. And so his writing is less alive, and as a writer he is less alive, and in writing, as in everything else, nothing matters but life. — Ted Hughes

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. — Lewis Cass

In one of the strangest types of synesthesia - there are at least three dozen - people see a word and immediately experience a taste on their tongue. — John Medina

Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity. — Fred Rodell

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative. — Henning Mankell

Gender is like a Rubik's Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve. — Sam Killermann

Music dissolves the straight and narrow. — Mason Cooley

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material. — Bob Newhart

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold. — David Gergen

Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man? — John Ortberg

For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life. — Hermann Hesse

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people ... — Victoria Woodhull

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin. — Karl Kraus