Jorio Vivarelli Quotes & Sayings

Nobody wanted to be sexless, but nobody wanted to be nothing but sex — Margaret Atwood

Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them. — Sarah Lancashire

It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about. — Lorrie Fair

More books." His eyes went wide. "You have, like, then books you just said you haven't read."
"Doesn't mean I won't get more books." I smiled at is incredulous expression. "I haven't been able to read a lot lately, but I will, and then I won't be out of anything new to read. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Suppressing the symptom does nothing but force the true problem to express itself on a deeper level at some other time. — Garth Stein

When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me. — Patty Griffin

When you grow older you miss that eagerness; life may be happy, you may have health and wealth and love and success, but the odds are that you never look forward as you once did to a single golden day. You never count the hours to it, you never see some moment ahead beckoning like a goddess across a fourth dimension. — James Hilton

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure. — Kit Pearson

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions. — David Hilfiker

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon. — George Eliot

There are, you see, two ways of reading a book: you either see it as a box with something inside and start looking for what it signifies, and then if you're even more perverse or depraved you set off after signifiers. And you treat the next book like a box contained in the first or containing it. And you annotate and interpret and question, and write a book about the book, and so on and on. Or there's the other way: you see the book as a little non-signifying machine, and the only question is "Does it work, and how does it work?" How does it work for you? If it doesn't work, if nothing comes through, you try another book. This second way of reading's intensive: something comes through or it doesn't. There's nothing to explain, nothing to understand, nothing to interpret. — Gilles Deleuze

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing. — Bram Stoker

He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was there for a purpose. It was wired into any creature that had not completely turned its back on its evolutionary inheritance and so remade itself in whatever image it coveted. The more sophisticated you became, the less you relied on fear and pain to keep you alive; you could afford to ignore them because you had other means of coping with the consequences if things went badly. — Iain M. Banks

The tree made it's first move, the first overture of friendship. It allowed a leaf to fall. — Ruskin Bond