Van Oosten Family Quotes & Sayings

Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories. — Miranda Richmond Mouillot

Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection - complex — Virginia Morell

The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life. — Marjorie Garber

You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home. — Sara Humphreys

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip. — Merrill Markoe

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. — Carl Sandburg

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients. — Oscar Levant

You're not beautiful," he said in a quiet statement that made her brow knit. "Why do you look beautiful when you're not? — Nora Roberts

Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening" ... The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored ... The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out. — Elizabeth Bowen

Let's just get a deal done then let's worry about expanding it. — John Key

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don't have language for. What fascinates me about that is we're talking about an art form in which your medium is language. It's almost a paradox that you're seeing. I want to give you emotion, that if I just relied on diction, I wouldn't have language for it. — Stuart Dybek

When you believe marriage is your answer, you'll often give something that eventually hurts you both. — Craig Groeschel

God does not change, but He uses change - to change us. He sends us on journeys that bring us to the end of ourselves. We often feel out of control, yet if we embrace His leading, we may find ourselves on the ride of our lives. — Jen Hatmaker