Trained Belgian Quotes

#1. A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it." What

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#3. It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.

Thomas Paine

#4. In The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper, Wayne is talking to Joe about "days that matter". Wayne says, "It's simple really. We were doing what we wanted to do, instead of what we expected ourselves to do.

Jonathan Tropper

#5. A woman is a hunter without a forest.

Christina Stead

#6. I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.

Siri Hustvedt

#7. The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.

Kal Penn

#8. My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.

George Soros

#9. History teaches us every day; our understanding is the matter!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. But...If that's true, then you're not...we thought you...Akira?

Katsuhiro Otomo

#11. It's not that nobody ever gets away: that's not true. It's that you carry it with you. It doesn't matter that the days roll on like hills too low to give names to; they might be of use later, so you keep them. You replay them to keep their memory alive. It feels worthwhile because it is.

John Darnielle

#12. If you were able to see us as separate beings, you would see us as approximately one hundred beings.

Esther Hicks