Kleimannetjes Quotes & Sayings

When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived. — Junot Diaz

Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity. — Don DeLillo

I try to live life so that I can live with myself. — John Green

It is almost a matter of no account how far Marguerite will penetrate, whether she will ever be brought back or whether she will fall a prey to some wandering tramp - the sleepwalking of the infinite has seized upon her and never more will let her go. — Hermann Broch

I give the character a history and a full life; this way the tears come naturally for the character in whatever situation calls for tears. Also, sometimes a certain song will help me feel emotions that evoke tears. — Danielle Panabaker

A dog came to my door, so I gave him a bone, the dog took the bone into the back yard and buried it. I'm going to go plant a tree there, with bones on it, then the dog will come back and say, "Shoot! It worked! I must distribute these bones equally for I have a green paw!" — Mitch Hedberg

Better is half a loaf than no bread. — John Heywood

When you're working with somebody else in that kind of way, you always have to have these guidelines to what you're doing - especially when you're working with your sibling. But when you're working by yourself you're free to do whatever you like. — Eleanor Friedberger

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell. — Ayn Rand

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US. — Jim Henson

For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice. — Frei Betto

We train together to make each other great. — Kara Goucher

My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order. — Truman Capote

Dear Lover...
you are the only man, who never hurt me, but broke my heart. — Lori Jenessa Nelson