Kalken Van Quotes & Sayings

I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention. — Damon Galgut

It is an ocean of burning oil I am cast adrift upon, no sea's repose; I pass from waking agonies ... to the semiconscious trance of torment in which the smaller, earlier, deeper rings of the brain know only that the nerves scream, the body aches, and there is no one to turn crying to for comfort. — Iain Banks

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this. — Steven Pressfield

Great spenders are bad lenders. — Benjamin Franklin

It isn't what happens to you in your life that destroys you. It's what you do about it. — Aimee L. Salter

I actually thought and believed that the story would be compelling enough to cause a real sea change in the way Congress reacted to that issue. I thought they would be startled, too. And they weren't. — Al Gore

Maerad, our world is full of sorrow and evil," he said. "But there is also beauty and light and love. You must remember that. — Alison Croggon

It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave. — Joel Parkinson

gold is stored in New York in vaults resting on bedrock, eighty feet below street level. The walls of the vaults are steel-reinforced concrete. The vaults are impenetrable. — Janet Evanovich

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences. — Charles Seymour

We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe. — Jane Goodall

Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous — Bette A. Stevens