Vandenburgh Volley Quotes & Sayings

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen. And yes, I suppose I was interested in that story in the gap between memory itself, the real business of being alive, and the imagination. — Colm Toibin

Rigga, Riggalai the Seer, the wax-witch who trapped souls in candles and burned them. Souls devoured in flame - — Steven Erikson

Never forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact. — Elaine A. Cannon

How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it. — Virginia Woolf

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed — Blixa Bargeld

Without this excitement they cannot have their Lyric Verse, and so they get it by any convenient means
and with absolute sincerity
but the Poems are not for the young lady, the young lady is for the Poems. — A.S. Byatt

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool. — Peter J. Daniels

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport. — Garry Kasparov

Because you can't redistribute anything to anybody if it's not created by somebody in the first place, — Lawrence Reed

The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication. — Sathya Sai Baba

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson