Kaili Vernoff Quotes & Sayings

I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells — Paul MacCready

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna

We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless. — Robertson Davies

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out, and they're working it out on your time and with your heart. — Greg Behrendt

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit. — Jennifer Weiner

I lie flat, the damp air above me like a lid. Like earth. I wish it would rain. Better still, a thunderstorm, black clouds, lightning, ear-splitting sound. — Margaret Atwood

And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made. — James Ponsoldt

The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything. — Ronda Rousey

SIMPLICITY is practicing a lifestyle that is increasingly free of excess, greed, covetousness, and other forms of dependence on the things of this world. The Holy Spirit works through simplicity to release spiritual gifts such as hospitality, mercy, and giving ... to live free of anxiety, and to better take care of this Earth. — Siang-Yang Tan

I did takwondo from the time I was pretty young and also played I did taekwondo for martial arts and then also played football, baseball, and basketball against older kids because of my brother being older. I learned pretty quickly to not be intimidated and to not back down. — Robbie Lawler