Christiaan Leeuwenburgh Quotes

#1. Old people like to give good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Joseph Epstein

#2. As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

Roland Barthes

#3. When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long and it's easy to get discouraged. Instead I think to myself, 'Wow, I have this great story idea, and today I'm going to write two pages of it. That's all - just two pages.'

Linda Sue Park

#4. Do not jump the gun because of gossip.

Jeanne Phillips

#5. Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

Michael Reagan

#6. You stay married thirty-four years, you don't have to prove who's got the bigger balls. Just take it for granted she does.

Jamie Farrell

#7. What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

Michelangelo

#8. We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched anywhere in the world.

Liam Fox

#9. Oh so i was right last night then. Unlike me, she has your love.

Samantha Young

#10. She is a treasure greater than anything else I have won.

Paulo Coelho

#11. A slight hiss built into a deafening roar of rushing air as the outer hatchway opened onto an empty blackness studded with tiny, impossibly bright points of light. Ford and Arthur popped into outer space like corks from a toy gun.

Douglas Adams

#12. Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

Andrew Simms

#13. The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.

Eugene Fitch Ware

#14. We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

Herman Melville