Verteltafel Quotes & Sayings

If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war. — T. Scott McLeod

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off. — Robert Helpmann

Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant. — Rue McClanahan

Don't be afraid to be who you are bacause you are the only person who knows you best. — Saredo Ali

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush. — Adam Dunn

Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing. — Dominique Wilkins

I say we go down fighting." ... "We do the best we can. — Leigh Bardugo

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. — Thomas Heywood

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it. — Carl Sandburg

They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand to them. Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't have got through the day without that, for whatever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to affect them like sunshine. — Louisa May Alcott

In the pre-war era when itinerant home-remedy salesmen still wandered the country, they had a traditional patter for selling a potion that was supposed to be particularly effective in treating burns and cuts. A toad with four legs in front and six behind would be placed in a box with mirrors lining the four walls. The toad, amazed at its own appearance from every angle, would break into an oily sweat. This sweat would be collected and simmered for 3,721 days while being stirred with a willow branch. The result was the marvelous potion.
When writing about myself, I feel something like that toad in the box. — Akira Kurosawa

Life is a long lesson in humility. — J.M. Barrie

Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them. — Deyth Banger