Stijn Van Quotes & Sayings

Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark. — Israelmore Ayivor

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. — John Ruskin

When museums are left with so little money that their future is in the hands of private donors, then they are unable to develop their own signatures by collecting themselves. On the other hand, though, I think we should also celebrate the fact that there is a lot of art that lives outside of, or on the outskirts of, the art market - and it is doing quite well. — Olafur Eliasson

Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade. — Rand Paul

In terms of sheer annoyance, nobody I have ever known has compared to Sare Worthington, saver of the environment, native of Portland, Maine, forever wishing that she were from Portland, Oregon. Bitch should have just moved there. — Caroline Kepnes

There was only so much television you could do. — Jackie Cooper

Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite. — Mary Oliver

Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time. — Diane Kruger

A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have kill you too. — Jake Johannsen

Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers. — Madeleine L'Engle

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror. — Barbra Streisand

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.] — Jane Austen