A Girl With A Pearl Earring Quotes

#1. I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

Warren Buffett

#2. It's important to be honest enough about your work, and the areas in which you can improve. I'm still learning every day and I'm still Hungry to create more and better work, hence the name.

Rankin

#3. When I heard "Pride and Joy" by Stevie Ray Vaughn on the radio, I just said "Hallelujah" .. he was just so good and strong and he would not be denied ... he single handedly brought guitar and blues oriented music back to the marketplace

Richard Betts

#4. The book was thick and red. It was almost thicker than it was wide, a thickness that somehow enhanced its bookishness. It was - to me aged 12 - quite clearly more of a book than most, if not all, of the paperbacks untidily stacked on the shelves of my father's study.

Will Self

#5. A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light

Ovid

#6. My first real crush was... Louis Tomlinson.

Harry Styles

#7. Priorities need to change at different stages of our life if we want to grow and evolve.

Apurva Purohit

#8. the prudent person neither neglects important commitments nor gets overextended.

William C. Mattison III

#9. Of coarse, no one wanted anyone to die, but there would always be relief that it was someone else and notthe one you loved.

Kirsty Moseley

#10. Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

Edward Bach

#11. It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.

Jennifer Donnelly

#12. It's pathetic, I knew I did from that first moment we met. It was ... not love at first sight exactly, but - familiarity. Like: oh, hello, it's you. It's going to be you. Game over.
-Ben

Mhairi McFarlane

#13. The only thing which really seemed to pay off in life, if you went by Mary Pedersen's example, was sleeping with your superiors.

Jonas Eriksson

#14. The third part of my life was where I was told the meaning of my life. One knows the weight of a thing when it is strong enough to bear its own meaning, to hear its own truth told to it, and yet to remain.

Jesse Ball

#15. But shadows spread, and deepened, and stayed. After thousands of years we're still strangers to darkness, fearful aliens in an enemy camp with our arms crossed over our chests.

Annie Dillard

#16. There's hundreds of corners on this island, Crystal said. And there are thousands of us. Exiles from the heartland without a heart. Out of the old country, a brand-new tribe, dancing to new tunes around a bucket of fire in a vacant lot.

Tom Spanbauer