Vancampen Quotes & Sayings

I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi. — D. B. Weiss

No more running-from nothing. I will never run from another thing on this Earth. I took one journey and I paid for the ticket, but let me tell you something, Paul D. Garner: it cost too much! — Toni Morrison

But you are a charming and beautiful dunces, madame. And," he continued in French, "a charming and beautiful woman
can get away with murder. Can you imagine that any man here would prosecute you for assassinating our language? — Loretta Chase

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient — John Newman

One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted. — Arthur Schuster

Feeling stuck or indecisive? Listen to your intuition and make a decision — Doreen Virtue

You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them? — John Ruskin

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner. — George Jean Nathan

I'm always nervous. If I wasn't nervous, it would be weird. I get the same feeling at all the big races. It's part of the routine, and I accept it. It means I'm there and I'm ready. — Allyson Felix

I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents
It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent — Tupac Shakur

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another — Jack Kornfield

The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress. — Mariska Hargitay

I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're going to keep. Or some prize potato you're hoping will win a prize at the county fair. — Patrick Rothfuss

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond. — Eknath Easwaran