Madelief Blanken Quotes & Sayings

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. — Gustave Courbet

But maybe that is why some people walk into your life - to tip you over and pour you out. Maybe some people storm into your life just to tell you they're not supposed to be there. That you can't take them or anyone with you wherever you're going next. Maybe not every person we encounter is a love story. Maybe some are wake-up calls. — Hannah Brencher

Becoming unshakeable through this storm. — Nikki Rowe

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!' — Celia Imrie

On the contrary, the inflation itself is partly a response to the reaction. As it has become politically less attractive to vote higher taxes to pay for higher spending, legislators have resorted to financing spending through inflation, a hidden tax that can be imposed without having been voted, taxation without representation. That is no more popular in the twentieth century than it was in the eighteenth. — Milton Friedman

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth. — Mark Krikorian

-What is this?
-This life?
Our sitting here by lanternlight together
Amid the wreckage of a former home?
You won't deny the lantern isn't new.
The stove is not, and you are not to me,
Nor I to you. — Robert Frost

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay. — Ashwin Sanghi

People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones. — Wilma Mankiller