Tekentafel Quotes & Sayings

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. — Kate Zambreno

I had nothing to offer her. I was illness, instability, everything she wanted to get away from. — Donna Tartt

Remember that idiotic question you asked me in the car? About what would happen when you can't play soccer any longer?" He didn't wait for any acknowledgment. "Nothing would happen. We would have a different adventure to go on. You are my best friend, my love, my playmate and my teammate. You'll have a team with me wherever we are, with whatever we are playing. — Mariana Zapata

God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis. — Albert Pujols

For we are noble in only one way, but bad in all sorts of ways. — Aristotle.

Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power. — Aeschylus

If you were perfect, I'd tattoo this on my chest. If you were beautiful, I'd carve this into a tree trunk. If you were nice, I'd write this in a letter. But you're none of those - — Bo Burnham

A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken but a John is different. You give him what he pays for. When you're with him you enjoy yourself and you want him to enjoy himself too. — William S. Burroughs

In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential. — T.K. Coleman

That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning organizations. — Peter M. Senge

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change. — Tavis Smiley

But here they were, despite death and everything, sitting in a car.
If this was fate, she was buying. — Tara Janzen

If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly. — Ellen Stofan

No, the Boss corrected, I'm not a lawyer. I know some law ... but I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can see what the law is like. It's like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks in the bed and a cold night. There ain't ever enough blanket to cover the case, no matter how much pulling and hauling, and somebody is always going to nigh catch pneumonia. Hell, the law is like the pants you bought last year for a growing boy, but it is always this year and the seams are popped and the shankbone's to the breeze. The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. The best you can do is do something and then make up some law to fit and by the time that law gets on the books you would have done something different. — Robert Penn Warren