Rodekool Quotes & Sayings

I shall need to courage to do what I'm about to do: speak. And risk the enormous surprise I shall feel at the poverty of the spoken thing. As soon as it's out of my mouth, I'll have to add: that's not it, that's not it! But I cannot be afraid of being ridiculous, I always preferred less to more also out of fear of the ridiculous: because there's also the shattering of modesty. I'm putting off having to speak to myself. Out of fear? And because I don't have a word to say. I don't have a word to say. So why don't I shut up? But if I do not force out the word muteness will swallow me forever in waves. — Clarice Lispector

The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world. — Spencer Bachus

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin! — Miles Davis

The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere. — Don Johnson

The cross is the place where heaven meets earth and grace erupts. The cross is the place where Jesus does not simply meet our suffering, but becomes our suffering so as to transform the world. — Matt Farlow

We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies getting it by mind and memory and understanding and delight. — John Hollander

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Unions are for 'collective bargaining,' not individual bargaining. It follows that most of the achievements of a union, even if they were more impressive than the staunchest unionist claims, could offer the rational worker no incentive to join; his individual efforts would not have a noticeable effect on the outcome, and whether he supported the union or not he would still get the benefits of its achievements. — Mancur Olson

If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it. — Jack Johnson

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. — Virginia Woolf