Ockie Fourie Quotes & Sayings

I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day. — Chad Harbach

Within the walls of our high school were the weak, the sad, the pompous, and the proud, all flying down the same road at a hundred miles an hour to an end for which we weren't ready. Students who were barely able to remember to bring their coats home from school were waiting to be unleashed into the world as adults. — Jamie McGuire

And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else. — Gary Becker

My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant from plant to galaxy. My works are the irrigation veins of this universal fluid. Through them ascend the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulations, the unconscious thoughts that animate the world — Ana Mendieta

I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction. — Virginia Woolf

Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance. — Peter McWilliams

The end of a day on which a life has ended is still far from being the end of days. — Jenny Erpenbeck

He caught that with the outside of his instep. — George Hamilton

Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life. — Brad Pitt

You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about being an ass." "That's good," I said. "Did you read that in a fortune cookie? — Garth Stein

The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn — Susan Abulhawa

Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom - I just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if it were on the fly. An intelligent man is prepared for spontaneity. — Roberta Pearce

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea. — Horace