Valcourt City Quotes & Sayings

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it. — Tony Kushner

He had never seen such eyes before, not even in the faces of soldiers unmanned in the midst of great carnage. Eyes like black mirrors, at once shallow and bottomless. He had the feeling that if he pressed his finger to one of those eyes, it would shatter and fall inward through a black cavern of grief and loss that could never be filled. — Greg Iles

[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair. — Sarah Louise Delany

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take. — Chip Kidd

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?' — Mario Van Peebles

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence. — Adam Rickitt

I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world. — Adolf Hitler

When you put your passion into your desire, when it becomes a fire that threatens to consume you unless you have it, then your will is in the right place. — Stephen Richards

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians. — Pete McCloskey

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be. — Suzanne Collins