Velzen Holland Quotes & Sayings

I like to think I'm un-categorisable. — Ang Lee

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them. — Doris Lessing

And yet for all that I still had never gotten used to the breathtaking impermanence of things. — Michael Chabon

Of course, it's true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you're feeling down the the landscape seems darker too - you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they don't change. They existed, and that's all there is to it. — Banana Yoshimoto

Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you. — Napoleon Bonaparte

An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants. — Michael Shurtleff

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice. — Horace

Writers are not paid for their words. They are paid for their perseverance. — John Briggs