Henry Van Loon Quotes

#1. Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin's worldview won't make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.

Ben Shapiro

#2. walked about a furlong

Daniel Defoe

#3. At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. I've never been an actor on Broadway, but it feels like you're on a stage when you play at Yankee Stadium. And that's the feeling I've always had.

Derek Jeter

#5. To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.

Harsha Bhogle

#6. I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

Olga Kurylenko

#7. A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. I have a band called Sons of the Lawless.

Jake Busey

#9. Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve

Tariq Ramadan

#10. If there is a God what the hell is He for?

William Faulkner

#11. Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

Carine Roitfeld

#12. I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

Lucian Freud

#13. The Western scientific community, and actually all of us, are in a difficult spot, because in order to maintain our current mode of being, we must ignore a tremendous amount of information.

Cleve Backster

#14. The whole notion of the nursing home was something dreamed up by people like my mother; American women with sunglasses, always searching for their tanning lotion or cigarette lighters.

David Sedaris

#15. Reality is not what you see but what is, and you don't know what is until you are yourself first.

Daniel Marques