Verkaik Quotes & Sayings

Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man. — Robert Blair

I love to walk in the forest and take my bike. I love to watch the little birdies. I'm a green person. — Willemijn Verkaik

Maybe she'll let me start wearing my Superman boxers again. — Ruth Cardello

You just have to know that you will always get up again. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you will. And that's what'll make you stronger. That's what happened to me — Willemijn Verkaik

There's nobody I look up to, really. — Rod Stewart

A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends. — Kin Hubbard

Every promise comes with a price and prize. — Sheeja Jose

Never be afraid to learn. Have a good amount of resilience and enjoy the journey. — Willemijn Verkaik

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. — Abbott L. Lowell

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive. — Akkineni Nagarjuna

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made. — Bonnie Bedelia

For the entire course of evolution leading from our primitive mammalian forebears of a hundred million years ago to the single lineage that threaded its way to become the first Homo sapiens, the total number of individuals it required might have been one hundred billion. Unknowingly, they all lived and died for us. (21) — Edward O. Wilson

If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set of tires. — Dave Barry

You are Alayne, and you must be Alayne all the time." He put two fingers on her left breast. "Even here. In your heart. Can you do that? Can you be my daughter in your heart?"
"I ... " I do not know, my lord, she almost said, but that was not what he wanted to hear. Lies and Arbor gold, she thought. "I am Alayne, Father. Who else would I be? — George R R Martin

I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write. — Avijeet Das

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music. — Willemijn Verkaik

When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street. — Talib Kweli

People always tell me I'm too modest, and that I'm allowed to tell myself now and then that I'm good at something. Well okay then, the bathroom is very (beautiful) clean right now. — Willemijn Verkaik