Vanquishers Quotes & Sayings

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. — Bill Richardson

Because we are not powerless biochemical machines, popping a pill every time we are mentally or physically out of tune is not the answer. Drugs and surgery are powerful tools when they are not overused, but the notion of simple drug fixes is fundamentally flawed. Every time a drug is introduced into the body to correct function A, it inevitably throws off function B, C, or D. It is not gene-directed hormones and neurotransmitters that control our bodies and our minds; our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives ... Oh ye of little belief! — Bruce H. Lipton

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do. — Victoria Chang

Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar. — A.E. Housman

Most of my colleagues have research awards on the shelf. I have party invites. — Anita Elberse

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. — John Steinbeck

It's not weird being recognised, but it's weird having to stop what you're doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory. — Chord Overstreet

...the nation as a whole has no contact with reality. That is only one of the reasons why I have always been forced to exist on the fringes of its society, consigned to the Limbo reserved for those who do know reality when they see it. — John Kennedy Toole

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don't, right? — Dave Eggers

If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr. — Edward Medina