Van Capsela Quotes & Sayings

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language. — Bob Dylan

God's 'permission' of evil so multiplied is not simply to be accounted for by his respecting our free will. He takes the harms we mutually inflict and overrules them for our good. — Jocelyn Gibb

If you start taking yourself more seriously than you do God then there's a problem. — Justin Bieber

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls. — Richard Attias

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17. — Piper Perabo

Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems — Andrea Jones

If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit. — Jet Li

I hate tricks. At the first sign of a trick or gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for cover. Tricks are ultimately boring, and I get bored easily, which may go along with my not having much of an attention span. But extremely clever chi-chi writing, or just plain tomfoolery writing, puts me to sleep. Writers don't need tricks or gimmicks or even necessarily need to be the smartest fellows on the block. At the risk of appearing foolish, a writer sometimes needs to be able to just stand and gape at this or that thing- a sunset or an old shoe- in absolute and simple amazement. — Raymond Carver

He listened to the occasional creak of Flora's squeaky board, and noticed it sounded lonely. Or maybe that was just him. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. — Giuseppe Mazzini

... "shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these. — Amit Chaudhuri

Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases. — Craig Groeschel

A pat on the back is six inches away from a kick up the ass. — Geri Halliwell