Veertig Sinkplate Quotes

#1. Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

Aeschylus

#2. It feels like my soul is slowly leaving my body and heading off to an unknown place, some "safe" place where it doesn't have to put up with me and my night terrors.

Paulo Coelho

#3. He is dressed in a long, white robe and in his hand is a white cap. I draw up as he passes down the hall; he does not see me. Shortly I hear a horse leaving. There is much I do not know about him, but tonight I know one of his secrets. He is a midnight rider.

Nancy B. Brewer

#4. I explained about how we were in Rick's hands and also how he had washed his hands.

Miranda July

#5. Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature. That's why we're given a lifetime to learn it.

Rick Warren

#6. The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

Frank Zappa

#7. Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.

Gustave Flaubert

#8. I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

Patrick Carney

#9. A little damage makes people more interesting, right?

Catherine Hapka

#10. She saw him after seventh hour in a place she'd never seen him before, carrying a microscope down the hall on the third floor. It was at least twice as nice as seeing him somewhere she expected him to be.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. I think communication is so firsbern.

Steve Martin

#12. If I had better foresight, maybe I could have improved things a little bit. But frankly, if I had perfect foresight, I would never have taken this job in the first place.

Richard F. Syron

#13. Happiness fills colours in our life in abundance.

Kishore Bansal

#14. Train not to get something right, train so that you can never get it wrong

David Belle

#15. As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely.
(Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)

Scott Westerfeld