Quotes About Jan Vermeer

#1. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, painted here by his friend Jan Vermeer, was a self-taught instrument maker.

Bill Bryson

#2. That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.

George Herbert

#3. I am Tessa Gray," she said in a low, clear voice. "And I believe in the importance of stories.

Cassandra Clare

#4. If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.

Lauren Willig

#5. The sun always shines above the clouds.

Paul F. Davis

#6. Age is a funny thing. So are appearances. Neither is relevant to what one knows, in my opinion.

Darren T. Patrick

#7. Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Wole Soyinka

#8. In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#9. It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

Teddy Pendergrass

#10. The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

Ron Wyden

#11. I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Twyla Tharp

#12. I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

Naomi Campbell

#13. Change the world is maybe Obama's job.

Jack Ma

#14. The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow