Lijken Balsemen Quotes & Sayings

The question is not what was different about Bathsheba. The difference was what had become different about David. — Johnny Hunt

You've made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go. — H.G.Wells

For me, it [moviemaking] is about social relevance. I want to make a movie that has some type of relevance where as the audience can't help but relate it in some way, and to continue that conversation outside the theater. I want people saying "this happened to my father" or "this happened to me." That's what I want. — Ric Roman Waugh

But really, both of them knew why they kept attending these parties: because they had become one of the few opportunities the four of them had to be together, and at times they seemed to be their only opportunity to create memories the four of them could share, keeping their friendship alive by dropping bundles of kindling onto a barely smoldering black smudge of fire. It was their way of pretending everything was the same. — Hanya Yanagihara

In other words, the unique value of the 'authentic' work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty. — Walter Benjamin

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more. — Haruki Murakami

I'm always looking for insights into the real Doris Day because I'm stuck with this infatuation and need to explain it to myself. — John Updike

You're going to pay the bill," said Grahame. "Then I'll escort you and the young lady out to the car. And we'll go back to my place, for a proper talk. Any funny business, and I shoot you both. Capiche? "
Fat Charlie capiched. He also capiched who had been driving the black Mercedes that afternoon and just how close he had already come to death that day. He was beginning to capiche how utterly cracked Grahame Coats was and how little chance Daisy and he had of getting out of this alive. — Neil Gaiman

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge. — George J. Mitchell

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated. — William Carlos Williams