Schrijfmotoriek Quotes & Sayings

Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds. — Jim Stanford

It would be nice to believe that love should be dished out in a fair way so that everyone got some. But that wasn't how it was going to be for me. — Margaret Atwood

Holy shit, where did you learn that? Fuck. Don't answer. I don't want to know. I prefer to think you were born with that talent. — J. Lynn

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks. — Peter Lynch

And everybody should have at least one person in his or her life who doesn't want a damned thing from them except a bit of friendly company — Ed Howdershelt

A writer often wants to change a reader's perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader. — Caryl Phillips

Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take. And what is my soul? ... It is everything that make a man. It is everything that makes this man. — Carew Papritz

Birth after birth the line unchanging runs,
And fathers live transmitted in their sons;
Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds,
The same their manners, and the same their minds:Till, as erelong successive buds decay,
And insect-shoals successive pass away,
Increasing wants the pregnant parent vex
With the fond wish to form a softer sex.. — Erasmus Darwin

There is a different attitude about, you know, how much differentiation there needs to be between our options and how many choices do I need to have in order to make a choice. — Sheena Iyengar

This modeling thing, it's pretty easy, but actually it's also really tough. — Cara Delevingne

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