Korte Dieren Quotes & Sayings

I wrote your name over and over - on scraps of paper, in books and on the back of my wrists. I carved it like sacred markings into trees and the tops of my thighs. Years went by and the scars have vanished, but the sting has not left me. Sometimes when I read a book, parts will lift from the pages in an anagram of your name. Like a code to remind me it's not over. Like dyslexia in reverse. — Lang Leav

When I meet young girls in Montreal or elsewhere who injure their bodies intentionally, deliberately, who want permanent scars to be drawn on their skin, I can't help secretly wishing they could meet other young girls whose permament scars are so deep they're invisible to the naked eye. I would like to seat them face to face and hear them make comparisons between a wanted scar and an inflicted scar, one that's paid for, the other that pays off, one visible, the other impenetrable, one inordinately sensitive, the other unfanthomable, one drawn, the other misshapen. — Kim Thuy

Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war. — Paul Reps

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news. — Aaron Sorkin

She was a glass snake. She wasn't poisonous but she sowed affliction just by going among men-mysteriously, like a miracle" (385) — Jorge Amado

Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it. — Akira Kurosawa

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. — Warren Buffett

A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas. — George Polya

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these ... terrible people who rise through the ranks. — Jonathan Meades

When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer. — Andrea Bocelli