Merlijn Twaalfhoven Quotes & Sayings

AWE coordinated with a number of attendees who couldn't make the trek out to Santa Clara to give them time on a Beam, letting them tool around the show floor, chatting with vendors and goofing around with irl attendees. — Anonymous

Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths. — Peter Cundill

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was. — William Shatner

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. — Thomas Paine

Anything simple always interests me. — David Hockney

Vincent Forte was kicked out of the UFC because he was too hardcore. — Paul Scheer

There were people in the world for whom the world and its people were subjects on which to cast spells. — Dave Eggers

Miss Petitfour loved the little pictures, each in its own serrated frame and each seeming to tell it's own little story. — Anne Michaels

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world. — Yael Stone

Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it's a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That's not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it's not going to turn you into a person who's worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that's kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working. — David

And that was the thing: you couldn't just stand there gawking at the world. A car slipped by. Then another. It was as if she'd stood frozen by the river of the world and gratefully stepped back into it, resuming her place ... The world waited, cold, grim, alive, beautiful. There was no saying no to it. — Liz Rosenberg

The reality is that we are in the hands of an angry God, who in His abounding mercy and love has given us a way out of what we so rightly deserve; Hell, the Lake of Fire and endless eternities without His presence! — Billy Witt

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them. — Anne Rice

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly. — Oliver North

To demilitarize the country means to make a profound decision. It is not enough to change the name of the armed forces. It is necessary to change the minds of those people who only yesterday wore a military uniform. — Oscar Arias