Zwaantje Tildonk Quotes & Sayings

A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract subliminal quality to take you on a journey, but you can root it just enough in a particular situation, a particular kind of real situation that a person might have, or a particular context in the real world. — Tod Machover

A woman being never at a loss ... the devil always sticks by them. — George Gordon Byron

Some of the mothers looked overwhelmed - they were no longer accustomed to supervising their own kids in a normal, day-to-day way. — Piper Kerman

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. — Jennifer Egan

The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage. — George Carlin

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray. — Christopher Hitchens

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. — Michael Polanyi