Tipping The Velvet Quotes & Sayings

I'm filled with desire - to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality. — Anatole Broyard

Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don't choose the ideas, they choose me. I don't wait for them. They come without my permission! — Mirka Mora

I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later. — Sarah Waters

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way. — Salman Rushdie

Stand-up is my baby. — Kevin Hart

Haz decisiones basada en tu conciencia porque al final del dia tu sola eres la que enfrentaras tus demonios.

Make decisions based on your conscience because at the end of the day you're the one that will face your demons — Isabel Ramos

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke. — Victor J. Stenger

All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. — Sarah Waters

You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this? — Ramana Maharshi

I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent. — Holliday Grainger

Joy is increased by spreading it to others. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

How can we expect people to put value on our work when we don't value ourselves enough to set and hold uncomfortable boundaries? — Brene Brown

There were about thirty of them, I think - all women; all seated at tables, bearing drinks and books and papers. You might have passed any one of them upon the street, and thought nothing; but the effect of their appearance all combined was rather queer. They were dressed, not strangely, but somehow distinctly. They wore skirts - but the kind of skirts a tailor might design if he were set, for a dare, to sew a bustle for a gent. Many seemed clad in walking-suits or riding-habits. Many wore pince-nez, or carried monocles on ribbons. There were one or two rather startling coiffures; and there were more neckties than I had ever seen brought together at any exclusively female ensemble. — Sarah Waters

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me. — Sarah Bernhardt

Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela - who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing. — Rush Limbaugh

Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun. — Sarah Waters

The more I know mankind, the more I love mt dogs. — Unknown Author 724

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together. — Jessica Howell