Tienie Jonker Quotes & Sayings

I want to position my books as premium-priced versions on the reasonably-priced scale, if that makes sense, to find a sweet spot between the high-end of what my brand can support and the low end that results in impulse purchases and maximum sales volume. — Barry Eisler

You see them in the mercury
light of water, the expanding
orbs of silver where trout
breathe. You hear
them in the sleepy kiss
of rainfall on pine
needles, smell them
as if they were snow
to the west. — Ken Craft

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected. — Alice James

You cannot get tired if you're interested in what you do. That's the key thing. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates. — Melody Beattie

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all. — Anne Hathaway

So you say faith is not enough for you and you want knowledge, too. But knowledge does not involve spiritual effort; knowledge is obvious. Faith assumes effort. Knowledge is repose and faith is motion. — Evgenij Vodolazkin

He looks strong and animal and dominant, a beast of sex. — Portia Da Costa

Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor's at the stake. — Peter Thiel

Man blindly works the will of fate.
[Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] — Christoph Martin Wieland

A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed. — Julien Torma

Round-the-clock security meant that some of them got stuck on the day shift, which was hard on vampires. At least I assumed that was why, after a week or two, they started looking a little peaked. — Karen Chance

I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us. — Sylvia Earle