Jaartje Ouder Quotes & Sayings

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers. — Andrew Wylie

Unlike an envied and admirable few, I separate my friends and almost never dare mingle one group with another. When I do, it is usually a social disaster, like mixing drinks. I love good beer and I love good wine, but you cannot drink both on the same evening without suffering. I love the friends with whom I play or once daily played snooker and tooted quantities of high-grade pulverized Andean flake; I love the friends with whom I dine at preposterously expensive restaurants; I love the friends with whom I'm film-making or mincing on the stage. I love and value them all equally and don't think of them as stratified or in tiers, one group in some way higher or more important than the rest, but the thought of introducing them to each other makes me shiver and shudder with cringing embarrassment. — Stephen Fry

You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry. — Carl Sagan

At any given time, there might be someone who's eight years old or 80 years old in the audience. Some nights there are a lot of girls in the audience, some nights not. It's so unpredictable, but I like that. — Patterson Hood

How much is our life governed by the lives and past actions of others? — Ahdaf Soueif

She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch. — Nenia Campbell

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway. — Roger Moore

Marie," he whispered against my hair.
"Yes?" I closed my eyes, bracing.
"You're holding me too tight."
"Oh, sorry." I loosened my arms, having to use a mental crowbar in the process. — Penny Reid

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant. — George Farquhar

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet. — Mel Brooks

I think I should be a president. President of the United States. — Alexander McQueen

56. As to those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a severe torment in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will have no helpers. — Anonymous

The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love. — Paulo Coelho