Bunschoten Fonds Quotes

#1. The eyes are the amulets of the mind.

Bill Vaughan

#2. Believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

Seth Godin

#3. you are, always were, worth coming apart for

Beau Taplin

#4. I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

Zoe Kravitz

#5. But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Ritchie Blackmore

#6. Nate took the sheet. It was covered in the neat, curvy handwriting so many women mastered and men almost never did. The top half was the message, recopied in the same Cyrillic that it had been on the wall. Below it was the translation in English.

Peter Clines

#7. Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.

Jodi Picoult

#8. The waiting area was jammed with the sort of egalitarian cross-section only genuine misery can provide: Hispanics and blacks and Russians and various indeterminate, red-eyed teenage girls with children you prayed were siblings; junkie veterans petitioning for painkillers they wouldn't get;

Jonathan Lethem

#9. I am a bird of God's garden
and I do not belong to this dusty world
For a day or two they have put me here
in this cage of my own body
I did not come here of my own
I will not return of my own
to my own country.

Rumi

#10. Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

John Suckling

#11. Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician
minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.

Gary Reilly