Saskia de Brauw Quotes
I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.
Quotes to Explore
-
Being spontaneous is a blessing.
-
I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
-
Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
-
I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
-
I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
-
Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
-
Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
-
You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
-
Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.
-
I said these trade deals are going to be terrible: we're going to lose manufacturing jobs, factories abroad; the real wages of Americans are not going to rise. People are coming across the border; it has got to be stopped.
-
The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
-
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
-
That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
-
Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.
-
I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them... I think you should just wait for the person you're...in love with.
-
When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.
-
Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.
-
21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the underlying drivers remain the same as desire to change the status quo.
-
Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
-
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
-
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
-
I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.
-
Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they'd never even been downtown. And you can see how this bitterness can accumulate. Here you see people crowded and hovered up in ghettos and slums with no hope.They see no way out.
-
I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.
