Varispeed Quotes & Sayings

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. — James L. Buckley

The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone. — Tim O'Brien

My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked. — Anais Nin

Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up. — Jeb Bush

Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep ourselves from slipping mechanically into this or that sub-personality. Thus we become able to identify with each part of our being as we wish. We can have more choice. It is the difference between being impotently transported by a roller coaster and, instead, driving a car and being able to choose which way to go and for what purpose to make the journey. — Piero Ferrucci

Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking! — Patricia Sun

Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well. — Wayne Rooney

Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented - Belgian chocolates, ripe bananas, almond croissants, stone-ground raisin bread - often so much it would have fed a hundred people. — Tristram Stuart

As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work. — Michael Johnson

Good dreams are better than films or books. — Alison Goldfrapp

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now. — David Hockney