Vayres Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset. — Debasish Mridha

For my mother's entire life, her mother was less a mother than splintered bits of shrapnel she carried around in her body, sharp, rusty debris that threatened to puncture an organ if she turned a certain way. — Meghan Daum

My clothes are native to the rug in the center of the room, which my mother has lovingly deemed the hamper. — Addison Moore

One of the most corrosive aspects of the criminal justice system is its toleration of the insanity defense...Legitimate in some few cases, the insanity defense has been rendered farcical through its manipulation by so-called experts. — Robert K. Tanenbaum

We must consult our means rather than our wishes. — George Washington

I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart. — Christopher Buckley

I'm very focused on projects that help people, not just help me. — LeToya Luckett

They seemed so free, and were as a matter of fact so tangled and tied up, inside themselves. They seemed so dashing and unconventional, and were really so conventional, so, as it were, shut up indoors inside themselves. They looked like bold, tall young sloops, just slipping from the harbour, into the wide seas of life. And they were, as a matter of fact, two poor young rudderless lives, moving from one chain anchorage to another. — D.H. Lawrence

They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness. Yes, here was a curious revelation, indeed, of the depth to which this people had been sunk in slavery. Their entire being was reduced to a monotonous dead level of patience, resignation, dumb uncomplaining acceptance of whatever might befall them in this life. Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man, he has struck bottom, I reckon; there is no lower deep for him. — Mark Twain

I told her that the plots were all the same, and that the style was pretty terrible. She would answer, 'Well, if it is a good plot, it will stand being read over a good many times, and the style doesn't matter as long as you can understand what the characters are doing. — John Wiley Jr.

keeps his tone soothingly soft, the mellow tones of a psychiatric nurse, as he informs me that I will have to give a speech. Then he waits for me to freak out. This speech is not your — Shonda Rhimes

I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go. — Tiger Woods

Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare's plays. — Jackie French

No one could be the way I remember my father. — Mason Cooley

Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory. — Ali Shaw