Schrijverscentrale Quotes & Sayings

Why a slow death in a strange country if you can die on the threshold of your own house?
Refugees don't exist.
Only blown away people exist,
people blown by the wind
all over the world. — Ad De Bont

Mercy! You stop all that talk!" "Stop what? Speakin' the truth?" "Don't you drag the truth inta this house!" Aunt Prue was flustered. — Kami Garcia

War pacifies itself. — Christopher Dutton

I prepare to conjure a personality. — Leisa Rayven

Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Embrace the future and keep your back up against the past. — Chris Vonada

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. — Joseph Brodsky

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains — Greg Mortenson

I'm the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they're cut and bleeding. — Stephanie Witter

Liberate yourself from the white/black dichotomy! — Ed Morales

When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD players and TVs and all these things to produce distractions for them, and I think it would be hard to find the time to create something. I think that's really changing something about adolescence. — Adrian Tomine