Verplancke Haarden Quotes & Sayings

There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females. — Anne Tyler

Pardon if all the cleanness and the beauty
Brave rhythym and the immemorial sea
Ensare us sometimes with their siren song,
Forgetful of our murderous intentions.
Through our uneasy peacetime carnival
Cold sweat of death holds us like a dew;
Even this grey machinery of murder
Holds beauty and the promise of a future. — Norman Hampson

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. — Theodore Dreiser

A guy can tell a girl he's in love with her until he's blue in the face. Words don't mean anything to a woman when her head's full of doubt. You have to show her. — Colleen Hoover

He glanced over to the stage, where a nearly naked woman gyrated lifelessly around the pole. She could've been cleaning toilets for all the enthusiasm she showed. — Joanna Wylde

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well. — Grace Hartigan

A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him. — Graham Greene

I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable. — Tony Blair

Mere hope isn't enough to change destiny. One must act. — Ogwo David Emenike

For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support. — Rabindranath Tagore

The good news and the bad news are the same: No one cares! — Dave Horowitz

Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day. — Bill Murray

I never killed a man I didn't have to. — John Wayne