Volledige Verbranding Quotes & Sayings

But you don't really mean to say that you couldn't love me if my name wasn't Ernest?
GWENDOLEN: But your name is Ernest.
JACK: Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? Do you mean to say you couldn't love me then?
GWENDOLEN (glibly): Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them. — Oscar Wilde

Anxious to know, yet only too happy to ignore, we seek in what is, a remedy for what is not; and in what is not a relief from what is. Now the real, now illusion is our refuge; and the soul has finally no other resource but the true, which is her weapon
and falsehood, which is her armor. — Paul Valery

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare. — Ernest Hemingway,

It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know. — Shannon A. Thompson

It is worthy of note that killing oneself and killing someone is not the same. For the former, one should lose one's faith, for the latter, one should never have any. — Igor Eliseev

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time. — Stephen Hawking

A power nap, is when you sleep on someone who's weaker than you — Demetri Martin

Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others. — Danny Thomas

Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov! — Steve Fowler

She followed him into a dark parlor to which clung the musky sweet smell of clean Negro, snuff, and Hearts of Love hairdressing. Several shadowy forms rose when she entered. — Harper Lee

I am addicted to the internet and my phone. — Myself

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed. — Anita Desai

Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes? — Pablo Neruda

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner. — Rob Lowe

I thought you might supply some tenderness
I lacked
But out of all the things I offered you took my
breath away
and now I want it back — Carrie Fisher