Vavi Quotes & Sayings

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs. — Brenda Lee

I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected. — Robert E.Lee

My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant. — Diana Trilling

So far the only good things I have seen to come out of this recent technological renaissance are video-chatting with your grandparents, online dating, and being able to attend traffic school on your computer. — Amy Poehler

Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough. — Eric Chaisson

I was hoping Betsy Nash would disappear. Literally. She was so insubstantial, I could imagine her slowly evaporating, leaving only a sticky spot on the edge of the sofa. But she lingered, eyes darting between me and her husband before we even began speaking. Like she was winding up for the conversation. The children, too, hovered about, little blonde ghosts trapped in a limbo between indolence and stupidity. The pretty girl might do all right. But the piggy middle child, who now waddled dazedly into the room, was destined for needy sex and snack-cake bingeing. The boy was the type who'd end up drinking in gas-station parking lots. The kind of angry, bored kid I saw on my way into town. — Gillian Flynn

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them. — Dionne Warwick

They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it. — Kevin Garnett

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know. — Oliver Stone

Fundamentally, a mobile strategy needs to be based in the value to the end user and the enterprise. — Dirk Nicol

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment. — Randy Castillo

The Hawk hired fifty harpers and jesters and taught them new songs. Songs about the puny fairy fool who had been chased away from Dalkeith-Upon-the-Sea by the legendary
Hawk. And being such a legend in his own time, his tales were ceded great truth and staying power. The players
were delighted with the epic grandeur of such a wild tale. When they had rehearsed to perfection the ditties and
refrains portraying the defeat of the fool, the Hawk sent them into the counties of Scotland and England. Grimm
accompanied the group of players traveling to Edinburgh to help spread the tale himself, while Hawk spent late hours by the candle scribbling, crossing out and perfecting his command for when the fool came. Sometimes, in the wee hours of the morning, he would reach for his set of sharp awls and blades and begin carving toy soldiers and dolls, one by one. — Karen Marie Moning

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

What, then, is the word of the religion of Jesus to those who stand with their backs against the wall? — Arthur G. Holder