Van Achter Bornem Quotes & Sayings

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it. — Nellie Melba

I want to dress like a child as much as possible. — Kanye West

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas. — Maira Kalman

Pain is nothing, just a warning signal from the body to the brain. Pain is no more the real thing than an X-ray photograph is the real thing. Biut of course he is wrong. — J.M. Coetzee

The statistics reveal a failure of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply unable to muster the strength necessary to develop a tenacious commitment to the truthfulness of Scripture. — Douglas Groothuis

I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos. — Marilyn Manson

This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of a single human being. — Andrei Makine

I have this theory about divorce. I have a theory that is never a tragedy for adults and always a tragedy for children. Adults can lose weight, find someone nicer, get their life back. Divorce gives grown-ups a get-out-of-jail-free card. It is the children who pay the price, and pay it for the rest of their lives. But we can't admit that, all us scarred veterans of the divorce court, because it would mean admitting that we have inflicted wounds on our children that they will carry for the rest of their lives. — Tony Parsons

A medal is an inconvenient thing to give to a naked man, because he has got no place to fix it on to. — Karen Blixen

It slowly dawns on me what it is, the sensation that has bridged the gap between how I saw the world yesterday and how I see it today. It compensates for my lost keenness and even makes everything around me a little brighter.
Hope. — Jessica Khoury