Zaanse Schans Quotes

#1. A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#2. The balanced adult retains an inner child. The secret is to know when to put him away.

Anthony North

#3. Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

Kingsley Amis

#4. Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

David Mitchell

#5. I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

Dirk Benedict

#6. When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long and it's easy to get discouraged. Instead I think to myself, 'Wow, I have this great story idea, and today I'm going to write two pages of it. That's all - just two pages.'

Linda Sue Park

#7. Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.

Henning Mankell

#8. He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.

Carolyn Kizer

#9. Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

Howard Nemerov

#10. The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.

Debasish Mridha