Reijmer Westervoort Quotes & Sayings

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting. — John Cleese

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. — Charles Simmons

Oh, that I do know ... Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without. — Suzanne Collins

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life. — Billy Graham

Christie loved books; and the attic next her own was full of them. To this store she found her way by a sort of instinct as sure as that which leads a fly to a honey-pot, and, finding many novels, she read her fill. This amusement lightened many heavy hours, peopled the silent house with troops of friends, and, for a time, was the joy of her life. — Louisa May Alcott

A life lived following one's dreams and passions is the purest form of existence. It is the only way to truly understand the music of the universe. — Vincent Lowry

Bei Dao became the most well-known name for me because of certain criticism of my work. Bei Dao was the name under which my work was criticized. So I became more well-known under Bei Dao than under the other names. — Bei Dao

Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource? — William Ashworth

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot. — Jack Klugman

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them. — Cal Thomas

When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike. — S.M. Stevens

I felt the fight-or-flight reflex swell up in me over and over again, but I knew that neither fight nor flight had ever worked for me before. — John Green

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power. — Michael Foot

Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world. — Kevin Focke