Old Vermont Quotes & Sayings

I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon. — Richard Brautigan

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You." — Dave Barry

In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level! — Mark Twain

He was no more, freed from
being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start. — Philip Roth

Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is. — Bill Gross

the house seems the material equivalent of her uncle's inner being: apprehensive, isolated, but full of cobwebby wonders. In — Anthony Doerr

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic. — Warren Rudman

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. — Charles Lindbergh

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me. — Brian Eno

If you want. It's not really your kind of thing," Perry said. "It's a snow globe. You know, a big old house and lots of Vermont snow. I thought it might remind you of me."
"I don't need a snow globe to remind me of you," Nick said, which was probably the most romantic thing he had ever heard himself say. It made him blush. — Josh Lanyon

It occurred to him that he didn't care much for these hedge animals. It had always seemed slightly perverted to him to clip and torture a plain old hedge into something that it wasn't. Along one of the highways in Vermont there had been a hedge billboard on a high slope overlooking the road, advertising some kind of ice cream. Making nature peddle ice cream, that was just wrong. It was grotesque. — Stephen King

As long as there are games to play it is not over. — Alex Ferguson

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Early practice is vital so that performances became totally ingrained and flow from the subconscious. — Earl Woods

Get it Right today, for today wil never come again — Seyi Ayoola

I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You. — Eva Gabor

A year in Vermont, according to an old saw, is nine months of winter followed by three months of very poor sledding. — Bill Bryson

Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same? — Nancy Burson

Assisted him? Dylan made the repairs. I only fell and hit my head, from what I can recall. Yes, I make excellent deadweight. — Scott Westerfeld