Pennenzakken Quotes & Sayings

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche. — E. V. Lucas

One would have a strong case for arguing that it was the men in her life - the lovers, the father, the directors, producers, critics - who destroyed it. And yet when you looked at the broad sweep they appeared more as agents, collectively, of a darker, wider force of ruin that pursued her. It was as if her epic beauty somehow angered the gods and drew down a suitably Promethean punishment; and the girl behind the beauty - the nice girl from Connecticut who at the end would wonder whether, if her life had been a movie, she would have been cast to play her part - found she had wandered off the lot into a Greek tragedy. [On Gene Tierney] — Paul Murray

Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs. — Nick Park

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire. — Ambrose Bierce

I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me. — Donald Trump

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did? — Harry Browne

But the outsider in May, the one from Briery Swamp who had never fit quite right, kept her tucked safely in her nook. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

Money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering. — William Easterly

So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary. — Albert Hadley

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere. — Catherine Anderson