Vuajtje Quotes & Sayings

I take in a huge breath and look at the sky as hard as I can. I feel like I'm trying to eat it with my eyes. I wish there would be certain things you come across and you could say, Okay, that's one. Put that away for me to pull out later just exactly as it is now. My dream is for me to be a poet who could make things like this sky come to life for someone else. If you see a sunset and try and describe it to someone in normal words, all you can say is, "Boy, I saw a great sunset last night." but if you are a poet, you give it to someone to feel for themselves. Like you make a little seed of what you say, they swallow it, and it blooms again inside their own heart. — Elizabeth Berg

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.
A man had a choice, after all. He devoted his life to his work or to his wife and children and home. It could not be combined; not in this day and age. In this insane world where God was second to income and goodness to wealth. — Richard Matheson

Already I ache for all the lives
I will never be a part of. — Scott Hastie

Another prediction of general relativity is that time should appear to run slower near a massive body like the earth. — Stephen Hawking

Lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough. — James C. Collins

I definitely miss New Zealand. Mainly friends and family. — Bret McKenzie

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf

Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society. — Wilhelm Reich

If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing. — Evgeni Plushenko

There's an energy that hangs between strangers even in a crowd. — Claire Fullerton

Why is it that the unwanted things come up of their own but the things of substance, of use, and of value need efforts to make them prosper? — Girdhar Joshi

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand. — Arnold Ross

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them. — R. H. Tawney