Famous Bob Vila Quotes & Sayings

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. — Amiri Baraka

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. — Herbert Hoover

Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face! — Oscar Wilde

What is awakening? Awakening is the cessation of self-deception! Religion is self-deception; fate is self-deception; the idea that there is no death but only continuation is a self-deception! Real awakening is to acquire a scientific mind, it is to meet face to face with the bare realities, and it is to leave the spiritual fallacies and fantasies! And this is real awakening! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's fun to challenge yourself and take advantage of all the opportunities that present themselves. — Perez Hilton

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. — Kin Hubbard

Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge. — David Halberstam

By gad, is that you, Ainswood? I haven't seen you in a dog's age. How's the gout? Still troubling you? — Loretta Chase

There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we reached the woods, where there were no flowers and no people. — Soseki Natsume

You know how comfortably you go on as a bachelor, and how very much you would dislike to be tied to a wife's apron-strings."

He laughed a little ruefully, but denied it. "I shouldn't dislike being tied to your apron-strings. — Georgette Heyer

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book. — Bernhard Schlink

Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people. — Diana Gabaldon

When you go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to look at people who look well. You don't want to look at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest. At least I don't. — Iris Apfel

I used to worry about you, Zoyd, but I see I can rest easy now the Vaseline of youth has been cleared from your life's lens by the mild detergent solution of time, in its passing. . . — Thomas Pynchon