Vertongen Strips Quotes & Sayings

It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do. — Alex Turner

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise! — George Ade

Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake. — Carlo M. Cipolla

A culture," the poet W. H. Auden observed, "is no better than its woods. — Chris Hedges

There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the "Sleepwalkers," I had several poems that were apprentice poems like this in which I take a walk with a poet who is no longer alive. — Edward Hirsch

I really became a hardcore Batman fan when I was eight years old. What was clear to me, the reason I liked him better than Superman or Spider-Man or the Hulk or whoever, was the fact that he was human, and I could identify with him, and I really believed in that character strongly. In my heart of hearts, when I was eight years old, I believed that if I studied real hard, and worked out real hard, and if my dad bought me a cool car, I could be this guy. — Michael Uslan

I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change how you think about things. Those are the movies I like the best. — John Waters

It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things. — Emily Procter

He wanted to lie with Marc and touch him everywhere, give him pleasure and purge his bad memories from him. He wanted to consume him and be consumed by him. — Darien Cox

Sea and fisherman are not good friends because fisherman takes the good treasures of the sea without giving something good in return! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor. — Gertrude Atherton

Sex stops when you pull up your pants,
Love never lets you go. — Kingsley Amis

I keep three kinds of books: those I want to read, those I want to reread, and those I want to reopen just to confirm how bad they are. — Sarah Manguso

That soft seduction of need and want, an equation of dependence that eases under the skin, so slow and sweet, only to lay a man open at the very time he most needs his strength. — Mark Lawrence

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. — Anais Nin