Torhild Sivertsen Quotes & Sayings

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals. — Deborah Moggach

Today's ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music. — Bob Hope

The police still found this earlier omission in my statement hard to understand, but they weren't the ones who had been the victim of the Wests, how could they have understood? — Stephen Richards

I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me. — Eva Braun

As a bounty hunter, I have to dress the part. If I came to the door and looked like Carrot Top, you'd laugh. — Duane Chapman

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do. — Jose Rizal

I t-tried to stay away, do the right thing. B-because I ain't no go for you. But f*uck, I want you so b-bad I feel like I- I c-can't breathe. Can't p-push you away n-no more. Need to have you c-close. — Tillie Cole

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. — Terryl L. Givens

The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops. — George Saunders

Dora was having trouble with her income tax, for she was entangled in that curious enigma which said the business was illegal and then taxed her for it. — John Steinbeck

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. — John Biddle

What a silence when you are here. What
a hellish silence.
You sit and I sit.
You lost and I lose.
— Janos Pilinszky

Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows ... it knows we can never reach it. — Carrie Jones