Vallory Rosenbledt Quotes & Sayings

There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap enough. There may benothing lofty in the sentiment, or fine in the expression, but it is careless country talk. Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. Some have this merit only. — Henry David Thoreau

Renew your resolution daily, and in the hour of temptation do not depart from the right path. — James Allen

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream. — Lady Gregory

I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'. — Nancy Pelosi

First of all, simply clawing or breathing at somedragon once isn't real fighting. Small people usually use words for what we mean by that. They might say, oh, "Your mother copulated extramaritally with a black poodle, and from this union you were born." Dragons just attack, once, instead. It's just as expressive. — Bard Bloom

Love was long over, but what was lost to him he still loved so harshly that it prevented him from listening even to its trace. — Richard Powers

When we talk about homeschooling today, we're amazed at how many people agree that they didn't learn much in school, that school teaches kids to pass the test and move on rather than explore and investigate and inquire... — Linda Dobson

Maybe I shouldn't scare off my date so quickly by shooting guns and telling stories about vomit, but, hey, the sooner he knows the real me, the better. — Vicki Lesage

The dance world was a big part of my growing up. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

I am most deeply concerned over a trend toward conformity, a growth of anti-intellectualism, which manifests itself in a sneering attitude toward education, science, and the arts. The tendency is to stifle mental freedom, which is the very basis of a democracy's life and growth. — Anais Nin

We don't measure our people's success in how they're doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy. — Bobby Jindal