Nijhoff Sportschool Quotes & Sayings

He was back at me like a cat, and he swung a hard chunk of wood from one of the smashed chairs. I caught the first one on the shoulder and I cleverly caught the next one right over the left ear. It broke a big white bell in my head, and he side-stepped, grunting for breath, and let me go down. I landed on my side, and he punted me in the belly like Groza trying for one from the mid-field stripe. — John D. MacDonald

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. — Ellen Hopkins

Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble. — H. Rider Haggard

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. — E.H. Gombrich

Most information doesn't constitute a story. Think of a telephone directory: lots of information, strong cast, but a bit weak on narrative. What counts in a story is its meaning. And that's a very different concept from information. — Ian Stewart

I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note. — Randy Pausch

I was obsessed with X-Men as a kid, and I would have to go and play every last one of them. My sister was obsessed with Barbies. So we would create these X-Men-Barbie combos and perform weird musicals where they interacted with each other. — Jake Epstein

Sometimes I wish I had a rewind button for my mouth. — Belle Aurora

Your mind grows through use. — Grenville Kleiser

The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy. — Lauren Oliver

What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then. — Vincent Van Gogh

As the years passed the ugly boy grew up into an ugly youth, and before he knew it, into an ugly middle-aged man. — Haruki Murakami

When I leave her, I will have few regrets. But those that I have, are magnificent. — Caedem Marquez

We absorb the energy that's around us, you know. — Courtney Cole

Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light ... — Karen Russell