Vagenda Blog Quotes & Sayings

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use. — Anna Brackett

I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things! — Russell Brand

Were the earth smooth, our brains would be smooth as well; we would wake, blink, walk two steps to get the whole picture, and lapse into a dreamless sleep. — Annie Dillard

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident — Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm very loyal in relationships. Even when I go out with my mom I don't look at other moms. — Garry Shandling

Star people are rare. — Jerry Spinelli

Harry did not really listen. A warmth was spreading through him that had nothing to do with the sunlight; a tight obstruction in his chest seemed to be dissolving. He knew that Ron and Hermione were more shocked than they were letting on, but the mere fact that they were still there on either side of him, speaking bracing words of comfort, not shrinking from him as though he were contaminated or dangerous, was worth more than he could ever tell them. — J.K. Rowling

Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope ... But no pressure. — Nora Roberts

To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will. — Minna Antrim

Stick to what you know and always be true to yourself. If you do that, your writing will be true, also. — Ashley Chunell

Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now. — Mario Andretti

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object. — Rosalind E. Krauss