Van Valina Quotes & Sayings

He [Samuel Butler] made a practise of doing the forks last when washing up, on the grounds that he might die before he got to them. This is very much his principle of 'eating the grapes downwards', so that however many grapes you have eaten the next is always the best of the remainder. — Philip Larkin

I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope there's mystery and poetry in your life - not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again. — Eileen Myles

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness. — Orson Scott Card

Aletheia, the Greek term subsequently translated "truth," literally means the unhidden, and, in awe of this unhiddenness, subsequent thinking sets aside the underlying hiddenness instead of contemplating it. Differing essentially from aletheia despite its relation to this "truth" of the first beginning, the truth grounds as the clearing for the hiddenness of historical-being. "The clearing for the concealment as the primordial-unified unfolding is the abyss of the ground that the here [Da] unfolds as" (65: 350). Time-space. — Daniel O. Dahlstrom

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out. — Chris Noth

Born from sea foam high up to the tops of the waves on the trail of love. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists. — Aimee Carter

The reality of life and an imperfect world dictates that things cannot be held constant to guarantee your success; you have to wiggle your way through a planned path within a maze, to attain your goal. — Archibald Marwizi

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul — Robert Henri