Varner Quotes & Sayings

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist. — DeVon Franklin

I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story. — Elle Varner

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist. — Elle Varner

One of my favorite dishes is this alfredo I make, and I make the sauce from scratch. I love making everything from scratch. — Elle Varner

I see her body as an arousing work of architecture. A sky-scraping building that I wouldn't mind laying over a mountain to inject my whale-sized shank through its front entrance, knocking the doorman out of the way and flooding the lobby once I am finished with her. — Carlton Mellick III

Dear Jack,
I love you, too.
And I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.
For me, that would be you.
So if you insist on being traditional ...
Yes.
- Ella — Lisa Kleypas

I'll eat anything. I ate antelope once in Swaziland. I didn't know what it was until I'd started chewing it. Everything tastes like chicken though doesn't it? It wasn't bad. — Nicholas Hoult

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms). — J.M. Varner

I respect you," he murmured. "and your views. I think of you as an equal. I respect your brains, and all those big words you like to use. But I also want to rip your clothes off and have sex with you until you scream and cry and see God." -Jack Travis (Smooth Talking Stranger) — Lisa Kleypas

Aw, group hug! No one's a mindless robot anymore. Score! — Lydia Millet

It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then at have it go from X to 3X and at h the crooks happily partying with your money while you're meeting margin calls. Why would you want to go within hailing distance of that? — Charlie Munger

As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam. — Elle Varner

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.
-Ella Varner — Lisa Kleypas

I love all things crafty. I love to make jewelry. I love to cut up old clothes and turn them into something new. I love projects like transforming a busted table into a shiny new table. I'm really into restoration and little side projects. — Elle Varner

I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard."

"You'll never find out. You--------"

He kissed me.

~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner — Lisa Kleypas

He had four rules concerning action and information. Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can of the enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. And never wait to know everything. The man who waited to know everything was still sitting in his tent when the enemy burned it over his head. Niall — Robert Jordan

The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology. — Susanne K. Langer

I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner patch him up like a mule, but I be damned if the man that'd let Anse Bundren treat him with raw cement aint got more spare legs than I have. — William Faulkner

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too. — Elle Varner

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms). — J.M. Varner

He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it.
-Ella — Lisa Kleypas

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel. — Elle Varner

I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular. — Elle Varner

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. — Elle Varner

I agree with Varner and Scruton that the more one thinks of one's life as a story that has chapters still to be written, and the more one hopes for achievements yet to come, the more one has to lose by being killed. For this reason, when there is an irreconcilable conflict between the basic survival needs of animals and of normal humans, it is not speciesist to give priority to the lives of those with a biographical sense of their life and a stronger orientation towards the future. — Peter Singer

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music. — Elle Varner

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am. — Elle Varner

Don't you think company is more precious than all these objects? — Joanne Owen

I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons. — Elle Varner

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance. — Larry Moss

When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter. — Douglas Brinkley

It's nine o'clock on Sunday night/Do you know where your man is? — Elle Varner

I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho."
In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. "What's the tenth thing?" I asked his shirtfront.
He paused, considering it. "Never mind," he grumbled. "That one would make me sound like a psycho, too. — Lisa Kleypas

Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop. — Elle Varner