Valvita Quotes & Sayings

a certain consciousness of our entire past and our imagined future blends itself with all our moments of keen sensibility. And — George Eliot

Amusement, even ironic amusement, is the beginning of sincere appreciation, as any lapsed hipster knows. — Last Man Standing

I went further than forgiving the clerk, I accepted her as a fellow victim of the same puppeteer. On — Maya Angelou

If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'. — Siri Hustvedt

Make the iron hot by striking it. — Oliver Cromwell

Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism. — Richard Dawkins

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me. — Moby

Get your deprived, samall-town, romance-novel reading mind out of of the gutter, Becky. — Maureen A. Miller

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone. — Berthold Auerbach

There is something irrational about reading. Before you read a book, you can know immediately whether or not you are going to like it, just as with people, you can tell just from looking at them whether or not you'll be their friend. You smell it, you sniff it, you wonder whether it's worth spending time in its company. The pages of a book have an invisible alchemy that imprints itself on our brain. A book is a living creature. — Jean-Michel Guenassia