Theo Maassen Oudejaarsconference Quotes & Sayings

The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own. — Paul Davies

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor. — Herschel Walker

Did nature supplement what man advanced? Did she complete what he began? With equal complacence she saw his misery, condoned his meanness and acquiesced in his torture. — Virginia Woolf

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines. — Mindy Kaling

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush. — George Galloway

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect. — David Hasselhoff

You take what God gives you and relish it. — Frank Vincent

When you are with everyone but me,
you're with no one.
When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone.
Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you
become that many, you're nothing. Empty. — Rumi

The only church that illuminates is a burning church. — Buenaventura Durruti

If she pops out sons the way she pops in tarts, the Dreadfort will soon be overrun with Boltons. — George R R Martin

We don't play well with others. — Ella Frank

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world. — Jeremy Northam