Vennekamp Paintings Quotes & Sayings

I think the idea of holing up and hunkering down against the larger forces of the world has not lost its allure since Thoreau's time. If anything that instinct, or impulse, continues to reside in almost all of us, sometimes activated or bestirred and other times dormant but always present. — Rick Bass

People don't become what they were brought up to be, people become themselves. (p.146) — Sarah Schulman

The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial. — Edward Snowden

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact. — Chuck Berry

We have already shown by references to the contemporary drama that the plea of custom is not sufficient to explain Shakespeare's attitude to the lower classes, but if we widen our survey to the entire field of English letters in his day, we shall see that he was running counter to all the best traditions of our literature. From the time of Piers Plowman down, the peasant had stood high with the great writers of poetry and prose alike. Chaucer's famous circle of story-tellers at the Tabard Inn in Southwark was eminently democratic. — William Shakespeare

A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma. — Keshia Chante

When young people grow up ... they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze. — Tite Kubo

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. — Isak Dinesen