Spijkers Quotes & Sayings

Don't blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn't crocheting doilies either. — Gudrun Ensslin

I was most confusedly in love ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it. — Nora Waln

It. Just don't leave my side, promise me that." Jon let out a low sound, quickly moving forward to press his lips against the captain's as Baltsaros's hands came up around him. Breaking the kiss, Jon looked hard at the captain. "I won't leave your side," he smiled, his fingers twining in the captain's hair. "I promise. — Anonymous

I was greedy, she warned, and could not fill my heart with enough pleasure, my stomach with enough contentment, my body with enough sleep. I was like a rice basket with a rat hole at the bottom, and thus could not be satisfied and overflow, nor could I be filled. I would never know the full depth and breadth of love, beauty, or happiness. She said it like a curse. — Amy Tan

This was a conversation I had with a so-called-fellow-trekkie the other day:
'So Picard or Kirk?' I asked.
'What?'
'Star Trek ... '
'Oh, Kirk.'
'Why?'
'I like the name better.'
I could have slammed his head against the table. — Melanie Kay Taylor

May you get more out of life than a cup of tea. — Rebecca St. James

Bad ideas are sometimes necessary." It sounds so much like an excuse, it's such an addict thing to say, that it makes my skin crawl. — Tess Sharpe

Linear thinking is patriarchal. — Meridel Le Sueur

A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing nothingto increase it; what can the latter do but take to drink and psychoanalysis? — W. H. Auden

Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace. — Richard Crashaw

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women. — Christopher Hampton