Delft Quotes

#1. A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#2. We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

Alice Morse Earle

#3. a gunpowder factory exploded at Delft in the 1600s, that the painter had been so haunted and obsessed by the destruction of his city that he painted it over and over.

Donna Tartt

#4. When snooty high school bitches grow up, their meanness is distilled into its purest, most lethal form," Emmie whispered fearfully. "Don't you watch Real Housewives?

Jayne Denker

#5. cause we all make mistakes sometimes, and we've all stepped across that line, but nothing's sweeter than the day we find forgiveness

TobyMac

#6. We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

Helen Thomas

#7. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#8. If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

Vinnie Jones

#9. Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.

Joel Osteen

#10. Twelve-hundred-dollar chairs and wore sleek designer shoes with tassels. Gone were the days of thick rubber soles and function over form,

Michael Connelly

#11. Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

Alan Cooper

#12. The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#13. The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time - including life - and that doesn't mean it's special.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#14. All that mattered was him looking at me

Jonathan Safran Foer