Stijn Coninx Quotes & Sayings

Chani sat back on her heels, submerging her fears in thought as she studied Paul's face. This was a trick she had learned from watching the Reverend Mothers. Time could be made to serve the mind. — Frank Herbert

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be. — Sai Baba

He was one of the few people who had spoken to me as though his words were not rocks and I was not glass. — Meredith Norton

Caring is not bossing somebody around; it only shows you're very insensitive to other peoples' feelings". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow. — Marcus Aurelius

I'm a doctor and a politician. Weapons are foreign to me. — Ayad Allawi

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. — O. Henry

For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Daedalus or the tripods of Hephaestus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves. — Aristotle.

In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy. — Barry Humphries

Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. — Jeannette Walls

I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little. — Charles De Gaulle

The voice of God whispers in the heart
So softly
That the soul pauses,
Making no noise,
And strives for these melodies,
Distant, sighing, like faintest breath,
And all the being is still to hear. — Stephen Crane

Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else. — Joe Abercrombie