The Birth Of Venus Book Quotes & Sayings

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void. — Victor Hugo

It does not take a long time to fall to the ground, even from nine stories up. But it took a lifetime for Yetta. It took every single one of the last moments of her life. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. — Christopher Hitchens

I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind. — Anthony Hopkins

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin. — Herman Melville