Tenvoorde Quotes & Sayings

I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity. — Philip Pullman

It's my side. I have found the pain. It is in my side, and I isolate it and define it, and arrange the other pains around it. I tell myself that pain is information, that I am learning to map the spaces of my own body. Then my body's feelings cascade toward my side, and pain pours over its outlines and erases them. ("Marriage") — William S. Wilson

You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes.
"Not claustrophobic people, Tris. — Veronica Roth

There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction. — C.S. Lewis

There are a lot of things I love about acting and one of the things I love the most is, here you are taking words off a page, working with someone you might have met just a week before, and somehow you're creating a moment that separates itself from space and time. You feel an incredible rush when you have that moment with another actor. You can feel it bounce off one another. Every take you do can reveal different things that were hiding. And things outside the story get revealed to you, too. It's an incredible way to work and to experience a story. — Ellen Page

Move the kundalini from the solar plexus region into the heart center, which purifies it and connects the two halves of you being. Bring the kundalini down again from the heart center to the navel center. — Frederick Lenz

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for
to find out how much a man could take without breaking. — Kurt Vonnegut

One man"s tool is another man's weapon. - Bruce Wayne — Greg Cox

Don't hope more than you're willing to work. — Rita Mae Brown

Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies. — Lynne Truss

Life forgets me but will not let me forget
Holds me down and tells me that I'm free. — Henry Rollins

She was my incubating uterus and birthday party thrower for the last seventeen years. — Colleen Hoover

The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean. — Anna Julia Cooper

Lila would never tell anyone about that time. She knew it would sound very sad, and it wasn't, really. — Marilynne Robinson

On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us. — R. Kelly