Voorwaarts Laerskool Quotes

#1. How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Marcus Aurelius

#2. Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

Ilona Andrews

#3. But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

John Drinkwater

#4. Just two words: a masterpiece.

Joe DiMaggio

#5. Dr August, there is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd. He may nod, and smile, and say the right thing, but even by this pretence his soul is pushed further away from the kinship of men.

Claire North

#6. Well, have you ever known someone who is nice and nasty, who makes you love them one minute and hate them the next? Who makes you feel wonderful and terrible and you never know which one it is going to be?

Daisy Goodwin

#7. While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.

Douglass North

#8. How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

Susanna Clarke

#9. Life is funny. Why should the afterlife be any different?

Nick Shamhart

#10. I do share with the lieutenant (Columbo) one very pronounced part of his personality - he loves to talk about his wife. You can't shut him up. I have the same problem. I can tell Shera stories till three in the morning. Shera is my wife.

Peter Falk

#11. A human's small intestine is 6 meters long.

Na

#12. In the dictionary, next to the word stress, there is a picture of a midsize mutant stuck inside a dog crate, wondering if her destiny is to be killed or to save the world. Okay, not really. But there should be.

James Patterson