Pieternel Osinga Quotes & Sayings

I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations. — Michael Craig-Martin

You didn't move your arm. You let me rest there. You didn't pull away. You pulled closer. You were so good to me. You knew and pretended
you didn't.
"Let's always love each other, and never be in love with each other."
And I agreed. — David Levithan

Learn as much by writing as by reading.
-Lord Acton — N.a.

In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools will forever lust for perfection and seek it out. However, what meaning is there in perfection? None. Not a bit ... After perfection there exists nothing higher. Not even room for creation which means there is no room for wisdom or talent either. Understand? To scientists like ourselves, perfection is despair. - Kurotsuchi Mayuri (Bleach 306) — Tite Kubo

The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own. — Tim Hetherington

Comedians love it when people point and laugh at them; naturists don't, despite many of them being funnier. — Roy Station

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply. — Joyce Carol Oates

DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled the birth of the cell in which it resides. — Richard Dawkins

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like. — Nicole Krauss

Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast. — Emile Souvestre

Except that only small people- the inside-small kind- don't like you to be big. — Jennifer Niven

The United States found dozens of billions of dollars for military action in Iraq, so it should certainly be able to find a few billions of dollars to get rid of weapons of mass destruction. I'll assume that since the most powerful nation - the United States - has promised to pay for much of this, then its word will be kept. If it isn't, I don't think we can have a true partnership. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it. — Giordano Bruno

I do not expect I shall ever again have the opportunity of defending and murdering a client in the same day. - Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter — Seth Grahame-Smith

92. Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping - its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair. — Maggie Nelson