Lenert Van Quotes & Sayings

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition. — Elliott Gould

I studied cooking all through high school. — Liam Hemsworth

Womenfolks have powerful imaginations when it comes to a man, an' she can read things into him he never knew was there, and like as not, they ain't! — Louis L'Amour

I couldn't think of anything other than her and the components of her. For example, her red hair. But was I so primitive I let myself be bewitched by hair? I mean, really. Hair! It's just hair! Everyone has it! She puts it up, she lets it down. So what? And why did all the other parts of her have me wheezing with delight? I mean, who hasn't got a back, or a belly, or armpits? This whole finicky obsession serves to humiliate me even as I write it, sure, but I suppose it isn't that abnormal. That's what first love is all about. What happens is you meet a love object and immediately a hole inside you starts aching, the hole that is always there but you don't notice until someone comes along, plugs it up, and then runs away with the plug. — Steve Toltz

Being at home was like a mattress to fall back on with the smallest of peas on the bottom, just large enough to bother the princess. I was damn lucky that I had a place to call home, but I didn't like the feeling of stealing my parents food and being unable to tell them when I could ever afford my own. — Alida Nugent

Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car. — Jonathan Lethem

China is an area where we need to be present. Lots of companies want to supply their products to China. — Gennady Timchenko

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may. — Joseph Smith Jr.

And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed. — Robin McKinley

Most high and happy princess, we must tell you a tale of the Man in the Moon, which if it seem ridiculous for the method, or superfluous for the matter, or for the means incredible, for three faults we can make but one excuse: it is a tale of the Man in the Moon.
It was forbidden in old time to dispute of chimaera, because it was a fiction. We hope in our times none will apply pastimes, because they are fancies; for there liveth none under the sun that knows what to make of the Man in the Moon. We present neither comedy, nor tragedy, nor story, nor anything, but ... that whosoever heareth may say this:
'Why, here is a tale of the Man in the Moon'. — John Lyly

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write. — George Crabbe