Varietates Quotes & Sayings

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. — Jacques Maritain

The world is a freakshow for my peeping eye's delight. — Suehiro Maruo

There's no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an actress has something to offer. There aren't many Helen Mirrens and Meryl Steeps, and it takes a lot of talent to get to that level. I hope I have it. That's the model I aspire to if I'm lucky enough. It's all about luck. — Ayelet Zurer

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson

When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again. — Chuck Pagano

To live with angels and chase their dreams. — James Frey

The first, clearer, type suggests the musical pattern of theme and variations. The chosen theme persists through the six stages, in various aspects. The second type is more difficult to analyze. A recurrent leitmotiv is lacking here; instead six differerent stages whose connection is usually an inner one are joined together in mosaic fashion. But on both types, the so-called judgment is the tenor which is maintained through all the changes. — Hellmut Wilhelm

Under the microscope you clearly perceive that these insects have organs, orifices, excrement; they do, most emphatically, copulate. Escorted on the one side by the Bot or Warble, on the other by the Hessian Fly, Miss Ormond advanced statelily, if slowly, into the open. Never did her features show more sublime than when lit up by the candour of her avowal. This is excrement; these, though Ritzema Bos is positive to the contrary, are the generative organs of the male. I've proved it. — Virginia Woolf

Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves. — Carlo Dossi

It was a delicious feeling, falling in love. I'd had so many luxuries in my life, and I thought I'd had a taste of this before, but I realized now it was merely a cheap imitation of something not meant to be imitated in the first place. — Kiera Cass