Soetkin Werbrouck Quotes & Sayings

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

. . . But if he is truly

Odysseus, home at last, make no mistake:

we two will know each other, even better -

we two have secret signs,

known to us both but hidden from the world. — Homer

What a writer wants to do is not what he does. — Jorge Luis Borges

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending. — Barbara Holland

At the Pentagon, for instance, in the NMCC's secure Emergency Actions room, military officials could find anyone in the Constitution's line of succession by checking the screen of a dedicated Zenith Z-150 Central Locator System computer. The CLS computers are protected by a special NSA protocol known as TEMPEST that shields them from electromagnetic snooping. II — Garrett M. Graff

I prefer all of my skeletons out of the closet, to make more room for my shoes. — Michelle Anderson Picarella

There were vases of silk roses carefully centered on crocheted doilies, figurines of puppies carrying roses in their mouths on lace doilies, and delicate rose-covered tea sets placed on paper doilies. And that was just the start of it. It all had a really old feel to it as well, like I'd been transported back to the 1890s.
Adrian stood behind us, just outside the door, and I was pretty sure I heard him mutter, Needs more rabbits. — Richelle Mead

The doing is the easy part. It's the deciding to do that is difficult. I most regret the decisions never made. — Michael R. Fletcher

People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan. — David Chang