Verbaasdheid Quotes & Sayings

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself. — Agatha Christie

To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that. — David Pajo

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway. — Larry McMurtry

In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I've lived to see my lost causes found. — Pauli Murray

God, I just love 'A Journey to the End of the Millennium,' by A. B. Yehoshua. My favorite novel by an American Jew is probably 'Humboldt's Gift.' — Michael Chabon

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure. — Dan Lipinski

You believe wealth and position grant you advantage over those beneath you? — Marcus Crassus

So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly quickly whereas some of the clearest, simplest lyrics that I've written have taken me the longest to get to the clarity of feeling that you're looking for. — Edward Hirsch

You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power
corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness.
Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein
said everything had changed since the atom was split,
except the way we think. We have to think anew. — Studs Terkel

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done. — Junot Diaz