Avocation Def Quotes & Sayings

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength. — Ovid

Manufacturers these days have peculiar problems: a package may recommend the virtues of its product by voice only, for it is not allowed to grab the customer by the sleeve or collar. — Stanislaw Lem

And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert — Kris Kristofferson

Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France. — Mark Twight

A book?" he asked. "Yeah, remember before television and computers we used to do this thing called reading? — Janet Evanovich

Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords. — Christopher Paolini

India has been a very accepting culture. We pride ourselves on that. That is a global truth. In fact, it forms a major theme in my books. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value. — Suresh Raina

I never wanted to fall in love. Only stupid girls compromised themselves that way, and I was too smart to sell myself short. — Jessica Cutler

Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solving crimes certainly wasn't as easy as they made it seem in the movies. — Joanne Fluke

If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow. — Grace Paley

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours. — Anne Rice

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. — Marilyn Ferguson