Arno Hintjens famous quotes

I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.
-- Arno Hintjens

#Father #Broken #Pockets

A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!
-- Arno Hintjens

#Boss #Ashamed #Decent

Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.
-- Arno Hintjens

#Nightmare

You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.
-- Arno Hintjens

#Art #Hard Work #Relaxation

The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole.
-- Arno Hintjens

#Book #Data #Bangs

Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down rapids. The rocks are there. If you fight them, you fly off the bow. If you allow the current to take you, you can pass through swimmingly. It is a rare gift at every bend.
-- Arno Hintjens

#Believe #Fighting #Artist

The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.
-- Arno Hintjens

#Brotherhood #Cost #Warning

What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your comfort zone and see what youre capable of. Your true goal is not to conquer fifty feet of inanimate rock, but to expand your abilities through learning.
-- Arno Hintjens

#Feet #What Matters #Rocks

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

It should have great meaning that of all the titles of respect and honor and admiration that could be given him, that God himself, he who is the highest of all, chose to be addressed simply as “Father.”

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order.

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

How'd you get in here?" She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. “I can pick locks. Looking for this?” she asked, holding up his wallet. “Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.