Johan Van Hulst Quotes

#1. The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace.

Joe Mantegna

#2. Why hadn't she been a detective instead of a goddamn stupid third-class civil rights lawyer? She hated the law. It took an aggressive, assertive personality. She didn't have it. She had a sneaky, sly, shy, squamous personality. She had French diseases of the soul.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. Not everyone is as nice as us.

Louis Sachar

#4. It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.

James N. Powell

#5. We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.

Rokia Traore

#6. One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

Andre Gide

#7. Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Marianne Williamson

#8. Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Music is my breath, blood and food - without music I would perish; the actor in me would die.

Dhanush

#10. Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Generate the belief in what you wish to achieve.

Steven Redhead

#12. People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#13. This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

Joseph Rotblat

#14. Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

H.L. Mencken

#15. You can tell a lot about a man from how he treats his dog,

Jim Butcher