Van Der Cruyssen Quotes

#1. And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'

Christy Haubegger

#2. For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

William Golding

#3. For a week, you carried my short story all folded up in your jeans pocket, said you felt sorry for the main character in it. That main character was me, of course.

Franki Elliot

#4. Live your life in your own unique way and be true to yourself

Josei Toda

#5. Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.

Peter Diamandis

#6. He wasn't an addict. He was a self-medicating nut job.

Pam Godwin

#7. America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

Rudy Giuliani

#8. But I seem to remember you saying that you would float us home tonight if you got your pipes. Which may be unfortunate, as I happen to be wearing my lead drinking shoes." I heard Stanchion chuckle behind me. "These

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#10. I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

Russell Simmons

#11. Thinking brainlessly with their spinal cords.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. The authority of the prince," said Artaxerxes, "must be defended by a military force; that force can only be maintained by taxes; all taxes must, at last, fall upon agriculture; and agriculture can never flourish except under the protection of justice and moderation." ^55

Edward Gibbon

#13. We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Isadora Duncan

#14. I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

Tim Roth