Stippellijnen Quotes & Sayings

There are so few other things we can look at with pride,' said Allen. 'We don't have a large university that has thirty or forty thousand students in it. We don't have the art museum that some communities have and are world-renowned. When somebody talks about West Texas, they talk about football. There is nothing to replace it. It's an integral part of what made the community strong. You take it away and it's almost like you strip the identity of the people. — H. G. Bissinger

Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come. — Megan Whalen Turner

I'm letting ye court my sister. Give me your word that ye will nae tell anyone what ye saw, especially Anna."
Ceana shifted from foot to foot.
"What did ye see anyway?"
His eyes grew amused.l
"I didnae witness ye lock lips with the MacKay man, if that's what ye're asking. — Victoria Roberts

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it. — Harvey MacKay

If the God of Christianity exists, the evidence for His existence is abundant and plain so that it is both unscientific and sinful not to believe in Him. — Cornelius Van Til

I've already warned you that the simplest ideas are the hardest to understand; I'll now add that they are also the hardest to explain. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Tragedies have a way of waking us up to what is truly important. — Lynda Cheldelin Fell

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity. — Lea Salonga

I was harder to pin down, but I knew him when I saw him. Like the Supreme Court and pornography, I was aware. — Alice Clayton

So one or both of them think I have this mark?" She closed the book with a thump. "That would be my guess, though I see a squid when I look at that picture, so who can say? — N.E. Conneely

Kennedy was not perfectly sure that Khrushchev was an entirely rational being. He was not absolutely certain that the Soviet Union wouldn't be happy to rule a world that was half toxic ash. — Mal Peet

There are many memories. but I'll tell you the one I like to think of best of all. It's just a homely everyday thing, but to me it is the happiest of them all. It is evening time here in the old house and the supper is cooking and the table is set for the whole family. It hurts a mother, Laura, when the plates begin to be taken away one by one. First there are seven and then six and then five...and on down to a single plate. So I like to think of the table set for the whole family at supper time. The robins are singing in the cottonwoods and the late afternoon sun is shining across the floor... The children are playing out in the yard. I can hear their voices and happy laughter. There isn't much to that memory is there? Out of a lifetime of experiences you would hardly expect that to be the one I would choose as the happiest, would you? But it is. — Bess Streeter Aldrich