Sietske De Vries Quotes & Sayings

How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared ... Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished ... Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No ... and yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction ... fulfilled a destiny ... To struggle and to understand - never this last without the other; such is the law ... — George Mallory

The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them. — Nikki Rowe

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. — Blaise Pascal

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get. — Chris Adrian

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions. — Lara Flynn Boyle

Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer. Too bad he's never cried. — Ian Spector

Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down on a bed instead of sitting at the counter of Black Cat Coffee. I quietly reassured them that this was an unusual situation, and had the machinery make me some bread as a breakfast. — Lemony Snicket

Allow yourself to fail to allow yourself to succeed. — Ben Tolosa

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me! — Miles Davis