Mechteld Oomen Quotes & Sayings

I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing. — Stephen Fry

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet. — David Benioff

Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight. — Liam Gallagher

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter. — Benjamin Disraeli

If we are all going to have tragedies, if none of us can escape them, then surely we have to learn from them, we have to gain something. And we have to use what we have gained. Those of us who have fought tooth and nail to overcome tragedy are, after all, nothing else, proof that such things can be survived. So we can actually help others survive their tragedies too. As long as they'll let us. — Sarah-Kate Lynch

When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty. — Jocelyn Moorhouse

I dreamed a place where I have come to dwell Cold Mountain says it all Monkeys scream, the valley fog is cold My door blends with the color of the peaks I gather leaves and thatch a hut among the pines Dig a pond and lead a trickle from the brook Long ago I left the world behind Eating ferns I pass the years in peace — Hanshan

I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfalls in the night country. — Bryce Courtenay

Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go. — Catherine Marshall

Paul Newman is simple not an actor and possibly not even alive. — Dwight Macdonald

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will. — Aeschylus

I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did. — John Lasseter

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings. — Sidney Blumenthal