Meerkerk Holland Quotes

#1. Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.

Dani Shapiro

#2. The time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.

Alexander Kotov

#4. The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.

Lisa Tuttle

#5. I will say I am the sum of my books.

V.S. Naipaul

#6. Through becoming aware of how the inner man and woman relates and communicates inside ourselves, it creates a joy and satisfaction in the three life areas that they influence: our meditation and inner growth, our relationships and our work and creativity.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#7. Six flights up I smelled it. Faint at first and then gradually stronger - the eye-watering stench of fermented sugar. I felt like I was walking into a distillery, and that clued me in as to who we were visiting. [...] I'm still waiting for some brave soul to start marketing Gremlin Piss Schnapps.

Kelly Meding

#8. God did not create you to fail!

Tommy Coletta

#9. I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.

Dorothy Parker

#10. As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

Michael Glawogger

#11. Mencheres. Bones co-ruler, grandsire, Master vampire of incredible power, and the ally who unnerved me the most, had telekinetically held me down so Bones could boink me into submission enroute to the vampire holding cell? Sweet holy Jesus, let me have hallucinated hearing that!

Jeaniene Frost

#12. If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.

Tallulah Bankhead

#13. I believe the American people care a lot about the environment.

Robert Redford

#14. Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

Nigel Dennis

#15. Masturbation is nothing to be ashamed of. It's nothing to be particularly proud of, either.

Matt Groening