Hans Dorrestijn Quotes

#1. Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.

Rose Macaulay

#2. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

Charles H. Brower

#3. Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

Mason Cooley

#4. I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

Lev Yilmaz

#5. Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

Alice Walker

#6. On history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendour never to be seen again.

W. Macqueen-Pope

#7. I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

Jonathan King

#8. Would that I had wings as well.

George R R Martin

#9. I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Terry Pratchett

#10. It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that.

Cecily Strong

#12. If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.

Marcus Buckingham

#13. If you want to breed something, breed bravehearts, not soulless racehorses.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. I'm composing and writing music.

Anthony Hopkins