Vanlandingham Hugh Quotes & Sayings

If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss. — Christian Morgenstern

For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians. — Victor Hugo

Money just draws flies. — Mahalia Jackson

Make hay while the sun shines. — John Heywood

Well, if a horse refuses, you've phrased your question wrongly. It's the same with women. Don't ask them, 'Shall we go out to dinner?' Ask: 'What can I cook for you?' Can she say not to that? No, she can't. — Nina George

Knowledge of the thing cannot impede it; but at least we have the things we discover, if not in our hands, at least in thought, and there they are at your disposal, which inspires us to the illusory hope of enjoying a kind of dominion over them. — Marcel Proust

Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out. — D. A. Pennebaker

I'm not a huge fan of plastic surgery, for either guys or girls. — Blake Griffin

As our eyes meet, I get a kind of deja vu, but instead of feeling like I'm repeating something in the past, it feels like I'm experiencing something that will happen in my future...It's like knowing all the words to a song but still finding them beautiful and surprising. — Nicola Yoon

I'd fought hard, and I learned that I could take a hit and keep going. And I'd never let myself get knocked down again — Taylor Morris

and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at everyone, and yet to avoid all eyes. I — F Scott Fitzgerald

How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you otherwise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me. — Chris Prentiss

Isn't it funny how sometimes you can instantly connect with people? How, despite being almost strangers, you can feel that you have known someone all your life? — Jane Green

Stocks are at an all-time high today. I don't have any money in the stock market. I don't have the stomach for the ups and downs. So about 20 years ago I put all of my money and liquid assets into videotape rewind machines. — David Letterman