Verjaardag Vergeten Quotes

#1. No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.

Nicole Gulla

#2. Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.

Lauren Oliver

#3. I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

Fran Lebowitz

#4. I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.

Syleena Johnson

#5. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

George Orwell

#6. I don't like beating up people in my hometown. I like to go to their hometown, so they can see what they're all about.

Tank Abbott

#7. Mma Ramotswe was right: evil repaid with retribution, with punishment, had achieved half its goal; evil repaid with kindness was shown to be what it really was, a small, petty thing, not something frightening at all, but something pitiable, a paltry affair.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you'll look great in anything.

Tim Gunn

#9. You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?

Chris Rock

#10. For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

Muriel Spark

#11. Silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

Margaret Deland

#12. Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

John Doolittle