Variorum Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings

I think artists are entitled to their songs. I'm very vocal and I understand that not everybody's gonna like me; it's not for everyone. — Jean Grae

None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge.
Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become. — Brennan Manning

As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors. — Judith Thurman

The categories used in psychiatric diagnosis are based on observation of signs and symptoms, rather than on pathological processes. One can make use of a few signs, such as facial expressions associated with depression or the flight of ideas associated with mania. But what clinicians mainly use for diagnosis are symptoms, the subject experiences reported by patients. Psychiatrists have little knowledge of the processes that lie behind these phenomena. Thus psychiatric diagnoses, with very few exceptions, are syndromes, not diseases. — Joel Paris

Truth is we are all tragedies waiting to happen; we just have to remember to have the rescue crew nearby when it strikes. — S. Elle Cameron

I'm in a secret underground hideout of a group of monster hunters, filled with magical totems, brass monkeys that move and enough firepower to take over a small country. — Bill Blais

I wear the midi because I feel if you're going to look ugly, you may as well look this year's ugly. — Joan Rivers

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms. — David Lloyd-Jones

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist. — Bruce Springsteen

Yes, I am a good singer. — Peter Tork

Believe in something larger than yourself ... get involved in the big ideas of your time. — Barbara Bush

It is not true that "love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." Love alters all the time; it is fluid, in perceptual flux, an evolving business across a lifetime. — Andrew Solomon

I wanted alot of tattoos but I never thought I was gonna be this rediculous. — Synyster Gates

Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do! — Norman Vincent Peale

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle.