Lonneke Scholten Quotes & Sayings

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. — V.S. Naipaul

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else
we are the busiest people in the world. — Eric Hoffer

What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon? — Jack O'Neill

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted. — Dennis Miller

I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years. — Courteney Cox

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it. — Pia Zadora

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. — Samuel Johnson

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past. — George B. McClellan

You will find that the dullest, most functionally illiterate mental mushroom has a very definite, very "scientific" view on one thing: the impossibility of any kind of psychic phenomena. — Simon

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine. — Carol Ann Duffy

I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already. — Anthony Bourdain

Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa. — David Lynch

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous. — Lily Allen