Vance And Hines Quotes & Sayings

Does it trouble me to write so insubstantially, with air on air? Well
my words will be as enduring as anything my father wrote, or Shakespeare wrote, or Beethoven wrote, or Darwin wrote. It turns out that they all wrote with air on air. — Kurt Vonnegut

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living. — Dick Gregory

I felt a different kind of loss in that moment. It reminded me of how a cocoon must feel when the butterfly emerges. Having nurtured and protected a thing for so long. Only to be left behind one day, a hollow shell, when it suddenly takes flight and never looks back. — J. Walker

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was 'Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.' — George Smoot

And for heaven's sake don't play Bach," ordered Randy. "It's so jumpy for today." Rush — Elizabeth Enright

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil. — Ambrose Bierce

So you get the house to yourself and you sprend Friday night baking? Typical teenager.
"What can I say?" I shrug. "I'm a rebel. — Colleen Hoover

Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in a fallen world, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly. — Lettie Cowman

A grief travels with us as far as we carry it. — Marty Rubin

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes. — Giambattista Valli

The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority. — Billy Graham

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown. — Joseph Cook

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. — Karl Marx

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others. — Masaru Ibuka