Raiker Quotes & Sayings

The more I work with the dead, the less I understand the living — Maurizio De Giovanni

My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Because sometimes you need to have nightmares to appreciate the dreams. — Jay McLean

Getting a Dog: She won this one easily, as I've already mentioned; I thought my graceful surrender would win me a concession or two down the line. i was wrong. Renee saw the dog not as a personal victory for her, but a huge favor she was doing me by teaching me the joys of being pissed on by an animal. This is just one of the adorable quirks of the dog, best friend God ever gave humanity in this crazy little world. — Rob Sheffield

The water is still and smooth. Polished glass. Not a ripple of wind disturbs the dark surface. Low-rising mist drifts off liquid mountains floating against a purple-bruised sky. An eager breath shudders past my lips. Soon the sun will break. — Sophie Jordan

I know only that it is time for me to be something when I am nothing. — Patrick Branwell Bronte

Being a mother makes everything more urgent. — Marianne Williamson

One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell. — William Osler

Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use. — Sri Chinmoy

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event. — Alan Huffman

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being. — Howard Kurtz

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care. — Jessica Alba

It is well known that women carry poison in their pockets. Did you expect a gun? A woman with a gun would be just another policeman. We fall in love with the convicts, remember that. Policemen marry girls from the neighborhood, high school looms over their unions, the first uniform is her prom dress and his black bow tie and white shirt. But the girls are thinking of poison, thinking of poison as the lights go out on the dresser where the revolver has been placed with care for the night. The black shoes, the fine, thick serge of the coat, shoulders and thighs of stallions. And the policemen are usually shot down by someone out of shape, thin, thin, nothing but living bones. Remember that. — Elizabeth Hardwick

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home ... — Nikki Sixx

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin. — Hesiod