Knorretje Afbeelding Quotes & Sayings

Ah me! what hand can pencil guide, or pen, To follow half on which the eye dilates Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken Than those whereof such things the bard relates, Who to the awe-struck world unlocked Elysium's gates? — George Gordon Byron

He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself. — J.K. Rowling

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. — Constantin Stanislavski

As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom. — Paulo Freire

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison. — Christopher Hitchens

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. — Robert B. Parker

I offered one of my best smiles, but this time it was genuine. It was another one of those Happy Abby moments I sort of wished for these days. — Jamie McGuire

The enemy of science is not religion ... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. — Frans De Waal

I like to eat sweets. When I go to a restaurant, I'll read the dessert menu before I even look at the entrees. — Morris Chestnut

These memories, which are my life
for we possess nothing certainly except the past
were always with me. — Evelyn Waugh

Here is an unbroken space in which a woman and a man may with the full sanction of society, practically make love to each other with their eyes, their fleeting touch, and the display of their bodies. Emblem of marriage, indeed. — Laurie Viera Rigler

I couldn't help shaking my head as I looked at him. Ian slept like a baby every morning - well, a baby who continually kept one hand down his pants. — Jeaniene Frost

Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they're bums and kidnappers, but when the Church says it, it is known as putting a kid on the right track. — Grace Metalious