Merwedegracht Quotes & Sayings

I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort. — Lauren Beukes

One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me out - the idea that someone is reading as I'm writing stuff. — Jennifer Armentrout

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility. — Paul Robeson

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be. — Plato

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The sexual contact before this?
"It was the first time."
The woman looked at Rat again, harder. The silence was more painful than the words. What she had just heard went beyond plain immorality. It was ridiculous. — Graham Spaid

Learn to love and value yourself, regardless of the affections of others. Romantic love then becomes a wonderful bonus, rather than a necessity. — Joanne Madeline Moore

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious — Uta Hagen

Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don't think there is some ultimate success. — Sophia Amoruso

To put the point facetiously, one could say that Hegel began his career a Marxist and later became a Hegelian. — Michael N. Forster

Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the spontaneity and expression conveyed by a less worked over line. — Jeffrey Brown