Bordewijk Blokken Quotes

#1. In Hollywood it's really tough to change genres; you have to re-prove yourself.

Drew Daywalt

#2. It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

William James

#3. They looked like frogs who'd been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs.

Lorrie Moore

#4. That which we are, we are.

Alfred Tennyson

#5. I have seen miracles in my time, my brothers and sisters. The greatest miracle of all, I believe, is the transformation that comes into the life of a man or a woman who accepts the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and tries to live it in his or her life.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#6. How were you supposed to feel when you adored the novels of Jules Verne, Maupassant, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Simenon and loads of others who then turned out to be complete bastards?

Jean-Michel Guenassia

#7. Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

James Hansen

#8. The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

John Ziman

#9. If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything.

Julian Barnes