Typisch Belgisch Quotes

#1. In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

Nhat Hanh

#2. To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.

Melissa Leo

#3. Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#4. The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.

Lorenzo Snow

#5. Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

David Frum

#6. I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones.

Jason Mraz

#7. You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

Tammy Faye Bakker

#8. For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.

Calvin Johnson

#9. So age after age - will it be soon, O Lord? -

Beneath the scalpel of nature and art,

Our spirit screams, our flesh depletes itself,

Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense.

("The Sixth Sense")

Nikolay S. Gumilev

#10. The wind is rising... we must attempt to live.

Paul Valery

#11. Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

Will Rogers

#12. Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.

Thomas Brooks

#13. There's nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

Scott Adams