Koninklijk Atheneum Quotes & Sayings

Happiness, not in another place but this place ... not for another hour, but this hour. — Walt Whitman

Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty. — Clint Smith

and life, seeing her own image, was still, and dared not to speak. — Oscar Wilde

building had turned out to be murders. She — James Patterson

I have no idea why hitting people when their backs are turned has such a bad reputation. I've always found it most effective." — Cassandra Gannon

You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others. — Cornel West

Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978. — Rachel Kushner

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along. — Joe Elliott

Music is love in search of a word. — Colette

You do what you are — Glynn Burridge

And now you've been so fucking spoiled by things coming to you so easily that you think everything's just going to happen for you. — Hanya Yanagihara

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives. — Douglas Sirk

If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in. — Benoit Mandelbrot

This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak - the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning. — Joseph Conrad

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn