Vatlee Quotes & Sayings

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth. — George Carey

When word came that Keith had died of cancer, Abel was astonished. That astonishment had to do with death, with the wiping out of a person, with the puzzlement that the man was simply gone. — Elizabeth Strout

There's always one more way to do something
your way. — Waylon Jennings

I remember the language of the people I grew up with. Language was so important to them. All that power was in it. And grace and metaphor. Some of it was very formal and Biblical, because the habit is that when you have something important to say you go into parable, if you're from Africa, or you go into another level of language. I wanted to use language that way, because my feeling was that a black novel was not black because I wrote it, or because there were black people in it, or because it was about black things. It was the style. It had a certain style. It was inevitable. I couldn't describe it, but I could produce it. — William Zinsser

I'm not a big clothes person. — Courteney Cox

Rejecting a simple grid for the capital as "tiresome and insipid", he argued that such a pattern made sense only for flat cities. Not only would diagonal streets provide "contrast and variety," but they would serve as express lanes, shortening the distance between places. Town squares would be situated where diagonal avenues crossed. — Ron Chernow

A star for every State, and a State for every star. — Robert Charles Winthrop

222. He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins. — Max F. Muller

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path. — Chogyam Trungpa