Klaartje Kennes Quotes

#1. I found my spirit wanted to choose between only two things - suicide, or the dreams I'd had in my youth. I am an old fool who borrowed the dreams of a young fool.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Seemingly insignificant choices are like seemingly trivial seeds. Once planted, they root and grow and spread into something tremendous. Imagine the prickly weeds some choices amount to over time and be careful not to plant them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. He dialed the hotel he had last seen through the horn-rimmed spectacles of his childhood. Dialing that number, 1-207-941-8282, was fatally easy. He held the telephone to his ear,

Stephen King

#4. But there I was, surrendering to a most extraordinary call from the grave, the mass-grave-to-be of Europe, as if somewhere ahead lay an iron gateway, slightly ajar, leading to a low and sombre country, with an incalculable crowd on sides eager to pass into it, and bearing me along.

Thomas Pynchon

#5. There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.

Grace Gealey

#6. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. I'm not meek at all.

Paula Radcliffe

#8. I feel like I should be able to be 18 and have the friends that I choose and to have fun and live my life.

Selena Gomez

#9. I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.

Katharine Graham

#10. There was a terrible danger in loving small, fragile things.

Gwen Cooper

#11. You can break through every barrier with persistent effort.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Sometimes the worst tidings come as an absence. A friend who does not visit at the usual time, and who quickly thereafter withdraws from the friendship. An awaited letter that does not arrive, followed at some distance by news of an untimely death.

Alma Katsu

#13. I was utterly, breathtakingly, and touchingly clueless. That's how folks like me get jobs like mine: honor outweighs common sense.

Stephen L. Burns

#14. And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.

Howard Dean