Taghviate Quotes & Sayings

I am from the Netherlands, so that means we like to stick to the rules, and we like to stick to the deal, and we like countries to do what they have promised. — Mark Rutte

I can't believe how many students don't read. They want to be writers, but they haven't read anything at all. They have looked at book covers, which usually allows them enough expertise to sneer, but they haven't read the books. How many young poets "don't like" poetry? How many fiction writers don't know Lehane from Nevada Barr? — Luis Alberto Urrea

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless extremes; beseeching at the portals of the soft source, mad with a completely phsycial realization of the origins of life-bliss; blindly seeking to return the way he came — Jack Kerouac

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain. — Nhat Hanh

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself. — Thomas A Kempis

We also pass a farmer in his yard, power-washing a donkey with a high-pressure hose. — Simon Armitage

Your garbage, transformed, is your gift. — Yehuda Berg

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman. — Bill Mollison

Little world, full of little people
shouting for recognition, screaming for love,
Rolling world, teeming with millions,
carousel of the hungry,
Is there food enough? Wheat and corn will not do.
The fat are the hungriest of all, the skinny the most silent. — James Kavanaugh

Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment. — Harry S. Truman

Jesus is not a white, middle-class Republican. Jesus is not a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Marxist, or a Socialist. Jesus is not a Baptist, a Catholic, a Lutheran, or a Buddhist. Jesus isn't even a Christian. Jesus Christ is Lord. — Ronnie McBrayer

Remember I came to Albuquerque to do a hair and makeup test and wardrobe fitting; you guys were already shooting. It's tough when the movie's already started and you kind of show up. You're the new kid on the block. I walked onto the set and Tommy [Lee Jones] was about to do the scene. I just kind of walked up to him. I was shaking, but I just gave him this big hug and he just had nothing to say. He was like, 'Gotta go to work now.' I had a great time working with him. — Charlize Theron

I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it ... I should be loving sculpture! But I have not gone deeply into sculpture. Instead, having been utterly insensitive to sculpture, I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space. — Zadie Smith

Aaron's eyes widened. "That's Lexi?" he asked.

Kyran turned to him with a frown. "Yeah. Why?"

"Nothing," Aaron said. "It's just...when I heard Skyler was messing
around with Lexi," he shrugged, "I figured she was your...girlfriend."

Kyran raised an eyebrow. "Skyler's stupid, not suicidal. — S.F. Mazhar