Vdor Quotes & Sayings

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking. — Jonathan Kozol

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. — Arthur Christiansen

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. — Albert Pike

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. — Muhammad Ali

There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum. — Florence King

A hundred years after his death, a statue of Lavoisier was erected in Paris and much admired until someone pointed out that it looked nothing like him. Under questioning the sculptor admitted that he had used the head of the mathematician and philosopher the Marquis de Condorcet - apparently he had a spare - in the hope that no one would notice or, having noticed, would care. In the second regard he was correct. The statue of Lavoisier-cum- Condorcet was allowed to remain in place for another half century until the Second World War when, one morning, it was taken away and melted down for scrap. — Bill Bryson

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts. — George W. S. Trow

Think different, be different.
-Vdor — Vernard Dorsey

That man who is more than his chemistry, walking on the earth, turning his plow point for a stone, dropping his handles to slide over an outcropping, kneeling in the earth to eat his lunch; that man who is more than his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. But the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry; and he is contemptuous of the land and of himself. — John Steinbeck

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair

The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man didn't have to watch. — Dave Barry

I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously. — David Copperfield

The brain wasn't engineered to deal with that rarefied level of dumbness. — Tim Dorsey

Think different, be different. — Vernard Dorsey

When I do something dorky, I blame it on being homeschooled. When I do something brilliant, I blame it on being homeschooled — Jamie Grace