Mark Plaatjes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

  • I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?

  • To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.

  • If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.

  • I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

  • Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

  • In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.

  • It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

  • Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.

  • Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

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