Vernieuwen Engels Quotes

#1. I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

Marilyn Hacker

#2. Markets rather than merely chasing old ones.

Walter Isaacson

#3. Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#4. The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. Lacuna peered at my shirt. "Aer-O-Smith. Arrowsmith. Does the shirt belong to your weapon dealer?"
"No."
"Then why do you wear the shirt of someone else's weapon dealer?

Jim Butcher

#7. If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

William Winwood Reade

#8. Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you're trying to do more than just make money.

Tony Hsieh

#9. I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption.

Neal Stephenson

#10. What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#11. T here's no written rule anywhere that I know of stating this, no First-teenth Amendment to the Literary Constitution, but there might as well be: you get one national poet.

Thomas C. Foster

#12. How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

Denis Waitley

#13. Do not allow anyone to dim your light.

Lailah Gifty Akita