Valcke Betonbouw Quotes & Sayings

Three years after my birth, my mother swells again. When Lanka is born and brought home, Shiva and I gaze over the edge of the bassinet at this strange, alien creature and claim her as our own. We are a threesome from then on. Joined at the hip. A pyramid. A triangle. — Nayomi Munaweera

In politics, looking at the big picture is the most convenient way to avoid getting bogged down in annoying little details, like the facts. That's why politicians always talk in generalities, such as "balancing the budget" or "obtaining justice under law" or "maintaining meaningful employment," when they really mean "massive spending cuts in programs advocated by my opens," or "creating a religious loophole for my largest contributor," or "keeping open a redundant and wasteful government facility in my district. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

It is after these rare calls that I experience the only moments of depression from which I ever suffer, and then I am angry at myself, a well-nourished person, for allowing even a single precious hour of life to be spoil: by anything so indifferent. That is the worst of being fed enough, and clothed enough, and warmed enough, and of having everything you can reasonably desire - on the least provocation you are made uncomfortable and unhappy by such abstract discomforts as being shut out from a nearer approach to your neighbour's soul; which is on the face of it foolish, the probability being that he hasn't got one. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind. — Seneca The Younger

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. — Robert Breault

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself, you don't need those techniques. — Richard Gere

If there is an itch one does want to scratch; but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch. — C.S. Lewis

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh. — Maya Angelou

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands. — Jim Rash