Uitgaven Per Inkomensgroep Quotes & Sayings

This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy. — Arthur Machen

America had the message of freedom and democracy, but we haven't actually shown that to be what we do in the world. So I think that's a terrifying thing. — Lesli Linka Glatter

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful. — Mindy Kaling

I am often told that the model of balance for the novelist should be Dante, who divided his territory up pretty evenly between hell, purgatory, and paradise. There can be no objection to this, but also there can be no reason to assume that the result of doing it in these times will give us the balanced picture it gave in Dante's. Dante lived in the thirteenth century, when that balance was achieved by the faith of his age. We live now in an age which doubts both fact and value, which is swept this way and that by momentary convictions. Instead of reflecting a balance from the world around him, the novelist now has to achieve one from a felt balance inside himself. — Flannery O'Connor

Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity. — Euripides

I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done. — Rob Portman

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor. — Mike May

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs. — Jean Kerr

In her experience, dead children, unlike dead adults, always looked as if they were sleeping - though she understood that there was an element of wishful thinking whenever she had come across corpses that young. — Chris Bohjalian

I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of. — Eli Roth

But, miraculously, something of her former life remained, her last link to the person she had been before she had become so utterly alone. A part of Tariq still alive inside her, sprouting tiny arms, growing translucent hands. — Khaled Hosseini