Zijkant Boek Quotes & Sayings

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids. — Benjamin Bratt

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill. — Kyra Sedgwick

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration. The Christian religion, which alone has reason, does not acknowledge as her true children those who believe without inspiration. It is not that she excludes reason and custom. On the contrary, the mind must be open to proofs, must be confirmed by custom, and offer itself in humbleness to inspirations, which alone can produce a true and saving effect — Robert M. Bowman Jr.

It's not my fault that my awesomeness intimidates people. — Jodi Picoult

It's very rare to be in a state where there's nothing in, where you have no attachment to any idea or concept about yourself. In that state you've immediately raised the mind of compassion, because if nothing is in, everything is in, and you are now free to experience yourself as the world. — Bernie Glassman

I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love. — Gabrielle Union

I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain. — Samuel Johnson

Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts. — A. Whitney Brown