Vandegrift Girls Quotes & Sayings

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals. — Julius Erving

So dumb to say, I won't while doing it. — M.F. Moonzajer

Every time I thought that I was "put together," I realized that we're always putting ourselves together, gathering the world in, letting it sift down and form us. — Rebecca Wells

All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful... If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality. There's a constant balance between those two. — Alan Shapiro

How do you know when it's over?"
"Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you. — Gunnar Ardelius

Do you feel how profound that is because you are a poet? — James Joyce

In life, you either choose to be a powerleess victim or one of the choosen ones, who now has the power to understand the pain of others. — Linda Alfiori

In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith ... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal. — Alice Foote MacDougall

The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change. — Seth Godin

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. — Jane Austen

I've been slightly obsessed with paper and notebooks. Among my most precious possessions is a small light-blue, breviary-sized volume - four-and-a-half inches wide, seven inches tall - made by a company called Denbigh. — Michael Dirda

I do shamefully little for charity, and I always talk about it when I do. — John Niven

The human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our eyes in order to blind us to our fate. The body walks and goes on walking. — Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

I did a series for teenagers and kids called S-Club 7 in LA for Fox Family Channel. And I did it because the children, everybody's children, they don't know who I am. They know I'm the-lady-in-the-movie-they-can't-see. And I was actually offended by that because I think I've done a lot of wonderful work. — Linda Blair