Vlaardingen Gemeente Quotes & Sayings

I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute. — Alexandre Dumas

It is hardily credible of how great consequences before God the smallest things are; and what great inconveniences some times follow those which appear to be light faults. — John Wesley

The race is short between the cradle and the grave! — Thomas Watson

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. — Samuel Goldwyn

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. — Dennis Potter

The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet. — Ilona Andrews

Youth!! Ah, what a word!! And how transitory! But, how grand! as long as it lasts. How many millions in gold would pour out for an ability to call it all back, as with our musical myth, Faust. During that magic part of a child's growth this world is just a gigantic inquiry box, containing many a topic for which a solution is paramount to a growing mind. And to whom can a child look, but us adults? Any man who "can't stop now" to talk with a child upon a topic which, to him is"too silly for anything," should look back to that day upon which that topic was dark and dubious in his own brain. A child who asks nothing will know nothing. That is why that "bump of inquiry" was put on top of our skulls. — Ernest Vincent Wright

I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times ... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits. — Kara DioGuardi

I forged more notes and my trips to the library became frequent. Reading grew into a passion. My first serious novel was Sinclair Lewis's Main Street. It made me see my boss, Mr. Gerald, and identify him as an American type. I would smile when I saw him lugging his golf bags into the office. I had always felt a vast distance separating me from the boss, and now I felt closer to him, though still distant. I felt now that I knew him, that I could feel the very limits of his narrow life. And this had happened because I had read a novel about a mythical man called George F. Babbitt. — Richard Wright

They did not see a secret door. "Let's — L.R.W. Lee

It's when you hide things that you choke on them. — Charles Bukowski

And then Knight Ryan Foxheart was announced and the crowd turned toward the Great Doors. They opened and I'm pretty sure choirs of angels were singing and at least fourteen women in the room became spontaneously pregnant because godsdamn.

(From The Lightning-Struck Heart) — T.J. Kline