Voorraad Engels Quotes & Sayings

In so far as it is possible for a green blur to arch its eyebrows disdainfully, this is what the green blur now did. — Douglas Adams

Fiction is an antidote, a reminder of the power of individual choice. Every novel has at its core a choice by at least one of its protagonists, reminding the reader that she can choose to be her own person, to go against what her parents or society or the state tell her to do and follow the faint but essential beat of her own heart. — Azar Nafisi

I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business ... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out — Stephen Fry

Little lumps of lead in copper jackets were crisscrossing the woods under the shellbursts, zipping along much faster than sound. — Kurt Vonnegut

At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says. — Gilbert Highet