Yasmina Ykelenstam Quotes & Sayings

Who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was. — Anne Bronte

It is something that I always found quite unfair: wondering why the Jews never rebelled when deported. — Roselyne Bosch

I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it 'like' my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee - not ever - that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red. — Andre Brink

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. — Jalal Talabani

But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on. — Jonny Greenwood

You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear. — Gene Simmons

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me. — Joe Carnahan

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way. — Julie Taymor

The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die ... — Sara Teasdale

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. — Jean-Paul Sartre