Top 15 Van Ruijven Quotes
#1. It seemed to me that the baker had an honest response to the painting. Van Ruijven tried too hard when he looked at paintings, with his honeyed words and studied expressions. He was too aware of having an audience to perform for, whereas the baker merely said what he thought.
Tracy Chevalier
#2. I was a waiter before 'The Office,' so to me, this was a winning lottery ticket. Everything about my life has changed.
John Krasinski
#3. Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.
Eric Hoffer
#4. Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.
Natalie Portman
#5. People weren't saying Oh wow anymore. They were saying No way instead and she wondered if there was something she might learn from this.
Don DeLillo
#6. Call me Sunshine, pussy spread like the rainbow.
Lil' Kim
#7. Each moment passes by and we do not even realize this. What we ought to cherish, we actually perish!
Sanchita Pandey
#8. I want her face to feel at home on an ancient coin, he said. I want her eyes to harm me.
Miriam Toews
#9. Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
Jeanette Winterson
#10. When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.
Charles Lamb
#12. He is
better than warm fall colors
better than beautiful music
better than doughnuts and coffee
Lisa Schroeder
#13. In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
Thomas More
#14. Characters run and take you to new places. You just keep hold of their leash.
P.A. Fielding
#15. Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.
Jonas Carpignano
