Matthijs Philatelie Quotes & Sayings

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land. — Christina Rossetti

I love to find new people. It's not for the sake of their being new; it's because if you find someone who perfectly fits a part, that's such a great thing. — Robert De Niro

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line when writing prose poems, which brings its own pleasures. — Denise Duhamel

Nothing about the character was new. He was simply a combination of tropes from many sources: even his origin story itself was full of swipes. Kane — Glen Weldon

It is much more a lack of fun which batters us than over abundance and indulgence — Raoul Vaneigem

No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.. — Sigmund Freud

I declare it well befits me to thank our God for simpler pleasures than these, than teak or gold or India cloth. Daily, in my youth, should not I have fallen upon my knees and thanked Him who died for us upon the Cross for the warmth of kindled fires, for the freedom to swing my hands in the air? Should I not have praised Him for the liberty to open doors and pass through them, for the escape from drudgery, and most, my mother's hand to hold? — M T Anderson

It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you. — Laura Furman

As early as 1975 she had come up with a wonderful line about the Labour Party: They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money. — Niall Ferguson

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery. — Joseph Campbell

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. — Seth Grahame-Smith