Verhoeff Van Quotes & Sayings

I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment. — Colin Farrell

The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors. — Marcel Proust

I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It's scary, this love. — Amy Poehler

I know that Dad was an idol to millions who grew up loving his music and his ideals. But to me he wasn't a musician or a peace icon, he was the father I loved and who let me down in so many ways. After the age of five, when my parents separated, I saw him only a handful of times, and when I did he was often remote and intimidating. I grew up longing for more contact with him but felt rejected and unimportant in his life.
... While Dad was fast becoming one of the wealthiest men in his field, Mum and I had very little and she was going out to work to support us. — Julian Lennon

I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation. — Robert A. Heinlein

It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it. — Donald Miller

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks. — Jon Stewart

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This isn't love. It's something broken and ugly. I wanted it so badly I didn't care what it looked like. — Amanda Grace

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. — Edward R. Murrow

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate. — Jean-Francois Beauchemin

Clearly, we're supposed to be together. If this were the internet, seventeen-year-old girls would be writing slash fiction about us as we speak. — Vaughn R. Demont

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to. — Lesley Gore

I think that collectivization was an erroneous and unsuccessful measure and it was impossible to admit the error. To conceal the failure people had to be cured, by every means of terrorism, of the habit of thinking and judging for themselves, and forced to see what didn't exist, to assert the very opposite of what their eyes told them. — Boris Pasternak

He had reached the outer limits of what Fun, capital F, could do for him. The cost was way too high, the returns pitifully inadequate. — Lev Grossman