Scholtens Equipment Quotes & Sayings

Grand gestures may be dramatic, but they're rarely practical. — Steven Harper

So he is putting down junk and coming on with tea. I take three drags, Jane looked at him and her flesh crystallized. I leaped up screaming "I got the fear!" and ran out of the house. Drank a beer in a little restaurant - mosaic bar and soccer scores and bullfight posters - and waited for the bus to town.

A year later in Tangier I heard she was dead. — William S. Burroughs

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom! — Vincent Van Gogh

A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right. — Wes "Scoop" Nisker

He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to. — Geoff Dyer

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941. — F. Sionil Jose

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit. — Albert Maltz

Let go of yesterday, you made it! Don't use yesterday's state of mind to make today's decisions. — C. Nzingha Smith

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon! — Marianne Moore

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way. — Lisa Scottoline

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened. — Sam Shepard

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand.
They are only meant to terrify & comfort. — John Berryman

most accounts of the war, Missouri tends to wink out of existence after the first year, or makes periodic cameos as a sideshow of guerrilla warfare in which the brutality takes center stage rather than the military role of those brutalities within the wider conflict. — Mark A. Lause