Vandell Reviews Quotes & Sayings

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves. — Gustav Heinemann

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies. — Will Self

I hate when people make a really good product and then stop making it. I get annoyed. — Justin Theroux

I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie. — Steven Spielberg

And because he loved her, it wouldn't matter that she wasn't twenty-two or thirty or forty anymore. In his eyes she was truly the most beautiful woman in the world. The thought brought tears to Parker's eyes. A sucker for love indeed. — Kristan Higgins

There is always exception to every rule. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My head feels like a snow globe that's been shaken, and glitter is swirling around in it like unmoored stars. — Laini Taylor

Friends are relatives you make for yourself. — Eustache Deschamps

Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of intellectual control, which presents us with the image of unrealities in order that we should understand and feel distanced from them. In imagination we dominate; in fantasy, we are dominated. — Roger Scruton

We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed? ... — Swami Vivekananda

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses. — Katie McGrath

In committed sex, in marriage, people don't feel the need to seduce or to build anticipation - - that's an effort they think they no longer need to do now that they have conquered their partner. If they're in the mood, their partner should be too. — Esther Perel

Once a woman told me that colored flowers would seem more bright if you added a few white flowers to give the colors definition. Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is more blue than you can imagine. — John Steinbeck