Tomtom Maps Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is
and the richness with which this is experienced. — John Pawson

This isn't the time to let pride rule you. You want him back? Stuff your pride up your backside and as soon as the opportunity arrives, tell him the truth. — Eresse

It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what have children to do with such things? — Joyce Carol Oates

I love myself. They make it so hard for us to love ourselves. — Libba Bray

All of my books now come from readers' ideas. — Ann Rule

Except for a handful, chess players don't have such illusions. The game has a severe analytic quality that makes self-deception difficult. Unlike the undiscovered poet who, despite the harsh criticism of his peers, lives on his fantasies for the day that he will be recognized as the next Dylan Thomas, even a young chess player can usually gauge his talent. When Josh was six, he played several games against a pudgy thirteen-year-old who was the top player on his high school team. He beat Josh every time, but a couple of the games were close, and afterwards the boy seemed gloomy about his performance. He explained that if he didn't make significant improvement during the next year, he would wind up as just another wood-pusher. Despite his celebrity in school, he seemed to know that he didn't have it. While — Fred Waitzkin

But I found signs of their trespass: a burned patch planted with a fistful of grain, a tree felled or stripped of fruit, a deer strung up in a snare. I never saw a poacher. They were too cunning, and for cause: the foresters would take a man's hands and eyes and leave him to the mercy of the wolves for such an offense. It was bad enough to steal the king's game, but snares were an abomnination. The gods abhor weapons that leave the hand, coward' weapons such as javelins, bows and arrows, slings. No man or beast should die by such means. — Sarah Micklem

Even in pictures of their youth, old people look old.
He watched as the pictures moved to crisp black-and-white and then to the bland colour of Polaroids, watched as children were born and then grew up, as hair fell out and was replaced by wrinkles.
And all the while Starnes and Mary stayed in the pictures together, from their wedding to their fiftieth anniversary.
I will have that, Colin thought. I will have it. I will. — John Green

You like blue eyes, huh?"
"Yes. I do. I like blue eyes. — Michael Grant

Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. — Tim O'Brien

I'm going to continue working as a model. I want to do it all! And I think it's possible to keep working while you go to school. Christy Turlington did it. Natalie Portman did it. Emma Watson just did it! And those are just women in the public eye, but plenty of others do it, too. You know, women around the world are great at multitasking. We do it well. — Karlie Kloss

Career, his accomplishments, his victories, the kind of friend he was, and the kind of father, except her. But she did a good job. Most of the — Danielle Steel

Just give us until Rome."
The tears escaped.
"Just give us until Rome, Melanie. — T.M. Williams

Not gay, just never met the right woman. — Neil Gaiman