Wierda Glen Quotes

Architecture is (in part) "the art of leaving out irrelevant details". Leaving out details, sadly, often derails into religiously ignoring details. The key word, however, is 'irrelevant': as the Chinese proverb says: people stumble over molehills, not over mountains. An architect consciously leaves out details that he or she has decided are irrelevant to the decisions to be made. ~ Gerben Wierda

To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach. ~ Thomas Bernhard

Great work doesn't make me jealous; it makes me want to work. ~ Glen Hirshberg

What did we do today to frighten the world? ~ Glen Cook

Do you know how few men there are worth having? ~ Glen Duncan

The moment demanded action and all we had was paralysis. ~ Glen Duncan

The only exercise I get is jumping to conclusions. ~ Glen Cook

There is no God. And that's His only Commandment. ~ Glen Duncan

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus. ~ Glen Duncan

Imagination was condemned to make something of things. ~ Glen Duncan

wished they had more time. Already the day ~ Glen Apseloff

Truth is a deadly weapon, Lady said. ~ Glen Cook

Ironies were like secrets: unshared they died. ~ Glen Duncan

...the performative online biliousness that has come to be known as trolling... ~ Glen Weldon

Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause. ~ Glen Cook

I counted seventy-three shades of grey in an eight-by-ten room. ~ Glen Duncan

No soldier likes the thought of losing his best friend and favorite toy. ~ Glen Cook

The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy. ~ Glen Duncan

Fuck the miracle of life, where do I sign up for a hysterectomy? ~ Glen Duncan

Not smart. Happily stupid. Stupidly happy. ~ Glen Duncan

There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it. ~ Glen Duncan

Speaking was temporarily beyond him, what with the testicular trauma and ass-stabbing. ~ Glen Duncan

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. ~ Glen Cook

It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own. ~ Glen Duncan

This writing malarkey should come with a health warning: MAY CAUSE INCESSANT DEVIATION FROM ORIGINAL INTENTION, AND DROWSINESS. ~ Glen Duncan

I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth. ~ Glen Duncan

Reader, I ate him. ~ Glen Duncan

She is the darkness. ~ Glen Cook

In religion, precise truth has almost no currency. True believers will kill and destroy to defend their inaccurate beliefs. ~ Glen Cook

Life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing. ~ Glen David Gold

He didn't protest much. Evidently he had a penchant for surrender. ~ Glen Duncan

Shoe style and condition is a key marker of economic status and prestige. ~ Glen Wilson

I usually dive head first and am really excited about that changes. ~ Glen Mazzara

Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows ... ~ Glen Duncan

The Hanged Man stopped gesturing and struck a pose: man listening. ~ Glen Cook

The really odd, unsettling thing was that Batman was smiling. Not ~ Glen Weldon

She revisited sex now as a ruined project she couldn't entirely give up on. ~ Glen Duncan

He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually. ~ Glen Duncan

Batman could be square, but he shouldn't be boring. ~ Glen Weldon

Take sleep mark death. ~ Glen L. Richards

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques. ~ Glen Cook

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it. ~ Glen Duncan

I'm too much of a big kid. ~ Iain Glen

The first impression sets the stage for further interaction. ~ Glen Wilson

Only a conquerer bothers to honor a fallen foe. ~ Glen Cook

There's no such thing as evil for its own sake. All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}. ~ Glen Duncan

I was my usual charming morning self, threatening blood feud with anyone fool enough to disturb my dreams. ~ Glen Cook

Eye contact can be used either as a means of seeking intimacy or as an attempt to intimidate. ~ Glen Wilson

Creation sprawls like a dewed and willing maiden outside your window awaiting only the lechery of your senses... ~ Glen Duncan

- Goblin, that was a dumb stunt.
- It sure was. Made me feel forty years younger. ~ Glen Cook

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'. ~ Glen Duncan

The beauty spot by her lip was one of a dozen or so scattered over her body. My new constellations. ~ Glen Duncan

Standing before him, the blight of idyllic thought and aspiration--rotting souls reproducing like fleas. ~ Glen R. Krisch

It's Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon. ~ Glen Duncan

Its front sags against its neighbor to the right, clinging for support like one of its own drunken patrons. ~ Glen Cook

The only way to be sure of never losing the ones you love. The Dahmer Method. Extreme, but effective. ~ Glen Duncan

She hated the predictability of herself, but knew life probably wouldn't be long enough for her to grow out of it. ~ Glen Duncan

You love life because life's all there is. ~ Glen Duncan

Let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent. ~ Glen Cook

You don't really learn how to swim until you're thrown to the sharks. (Lauren) ~ Priscilla Glen

You don't believe in the soul until you feel it straining to escape the body. ~ Glen Duncan

Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete. ~ Glen Cook

I don't view my opinions as the right ones; they are just different. ~ Glen Taylor

His curse in life was to be attracted to people who understood him. ~ Glen David Gold

It was depressing how pornography had so emphatically demoted the vagina. The poor old vagina! ~ Glen Duncan

Listen to the advice of someone about to die. Do it while you are still young. ~ Glen McDiarmid

As we age, we have a choice: to be sour or serene. ~ Glen E. Miller

Talk with a comfortable tempo - too fast sounds nervous and you might lose the audience, too slow can come across as dull-witted. ~ Glen Wilson

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere. ~ Glen Duncan

There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps. ~ Glen Sather

Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion. ~ Glen Duncan

Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies. ~ Glen Cook

Moll is immoral, shallow, hypocritical, heartless, a bad woman: yet Moll is marvellous. ~ Glen Duncan

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time. ~ Glen Cook

The road to Hell, you say, is paved with good intentions. Charming. But actually it's paved with intriguing questions. ~ Glen Duncan

We may not be aware of the exact significance of each gesture but the overall impression is usually quite accurate. ~ Glen Wilson

Faith was a choice. So, it followed, was wonder. ~ Glen David Gold

Well - er - Batwoman - I thought we were going to die - and I wanted to make your last moments happy ones!" he says. Jerk. ~ Glen Weldon

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it. ~ Glen Duncan

The world, Lula was thinking, is oozing, teeming, crawling with miracles. And we live in the opaque plastic bubble of television and booze. ~ Glen Duncan

That's the problem with being alive," she says, staring at the floor. "You've got to keep thinking of what to do. ~ Glen Duncan

Embrace determinism and you're chained all the way back to the beginning. Of the universe. Of everything. ~ Glen Duncan

Hot tip: If you're a human having a fling with a werewolf, break it off. Now. ~ Glen Duncan

We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant. ~ Glen Cook

I said. "But there are bibliophiles the world over it would reduce to tears of joy." No exaggeration. Harley's [book] collection's worth a million-six ... ~ Glen Duncan

I was analyzing the guys' nonverbal communication.. ~ Glen Davis

Grace only exists to be
fallen from. ~ Glen Duncan

Over and over, throughout this first year, he faces down those who would threaten the lives of millionaires to extort their millions from them. Of ~ Glen Weldon

Combat is fear and management of fear far more than it is organized murder. Those who manage fear best will seize the day. ~ Glen Cook

Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony. The Black Company pg 447 ~ Glen Cook

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel. ~ Iain Glen

Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies. ~ Glen Hirshberg

There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart. ~ Glen Cook

You know why they invented the phrase 'case closed'?
What?
So that the audience would know it wasn't. ~ Glen Duncan

The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below. ~ Glen Drake

The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael ~ Glen Duncan

I am a lineman for the county. ~ Glen Campbell

I am a man of lost faiths. ~ Glen Duncan

-'Did I snore again last night?'
-'You solidified your grasp on the all-time women's championship. You're ready to compete at the next level. ~ Glen Cook

Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The ~ Glen Cook