Van Oosten Library Quotes

#1. Is that really so much to ask? One sexy, gorgeous, mentally stable, gainfully employed guy with an amazing personality, that doesn't smell like mothballs or live with his mother?

Victoria Michaels

#2. I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Paul Simon

#3. Murray said, "Is this Heaven?"
The Voice said, "This is no place as you understand place."
Murray was embarrassed, but the next question had to be asked. "Pardon me if I sound like a jackass. Are you God?

Isaac Asimov

#4. Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

Rob Thomas

#5. Together or apart, no matter ow far apart, we live in one anther. We go n together.

Ann Brashares

#6. Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

Avril Lavigne

#7. And Moses said, If you should disbelieve, you and whoever is on the earth entirely - indeed, Allah is Free of need and Praiseworthy.

Quran 8 42

#8. You hurt and have sharp desire,
yet your presence is a healing calm.

Rumi

#9. Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

David Frum

#10. As Jesus, the Word, is of divine origin as well as a thoroughly human figure of first-century Palestine, so is the Bible of ultimately divine origin yet also thoroughly a product of its time.

Peter Enns

#11. I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

Jez Butterworth

#12. And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones ...

Colin Meloy

#13. Western culture has allowed for the open admiration of beauty because it is a human value and a pleasure, rather than some perilous evil.

Olivia Pierson

#14. Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.

Jeanette Winterson

#15. Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.

Harvey Pekar