Thijmen Vos Quotes & Sayings

Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt. — Tamara Mellon

It's not what you have done in your past,
but what you are doing for your
future that counts! — Timothy Pina

_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve? — Namsoon Kang

The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me. — Stanley Hauerwas

You're absolutely right. Our little town is a hole. It always has been and still is. But now it is a hole into the future. We're going to dump so much through this hole into your lousy world that everything will change in it. Life will be different. It'll be fair. Everyone will have everything that he needs. Some hole, huh? Knowledge comes through this hole. And when we have the knowledge, we'll make everyone rich, and we'll fly to the stars, and go anywhere we want. That's the kind of hole we have here — Arkady Strugatsky

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor. — John Ford

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly
From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die. — Lucretius

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. — Oscar Levant

Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a-it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation. — Dan Quayle

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes. — Larry Niven

And you out there: Aren't you somehow right here with me? — Garth Risk Hallberg

At a priesthood meeting ... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places. — Abraham H. Cannon

What, should we get rid of our ignorance, the very substance of our lives, merely in order to understand one another? — R.P. Blackmur

Wherever there was a scrap of soil amongst the ravaged crags, emaciated trees struggled to cling on: a poignant metaphor for the way so many Nepalis eke out an existence, defiantly surviving on less than nothing. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or cultural practice? Is there no line to be drawn? If honor killings are okay, then why not virgin sacrifices or cannibalism or sex with children outside the church? We have perversely taken our notion of tolerance to such extremes that we've become tolerant of intolerance. — Bill Maher