Gulden Middenweg Quotes

#1. I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

R. Lee Ermey

#2. She knew for a fact, for instance, that what the Polo sisters did behind the closed doors of their adjoining rooms was still illegal in Alabama.

John Varley

#3. That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased;

Aristotle.

#4. Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Jan Morris

#5. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

H.L. Mencken

#6. I've been around the bend in corporations.

Indra Nooyi

#7. He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die
and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

Dodie Smith

#8. America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Kit Bond

#9. For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#10. There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

Chelsea Handler

#11. The assignment was to fall in love.
The details were up to you.
The second part was
to include in the poem certain words,
words drawn from a specific text
on another subject altogether.

Louise Gluck