Veberod Quotes & Sayings

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being. — Brit Marling

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland. — Maxim Gorky

I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule ...
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your chosen path. — Nick Hornby

I don't really understand it. Never have. The more I think on it the more it horrifies me. How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible? — Michael Shaara

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom. — Brand Blanshard

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population. — Wendy Craig

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone. — Bob Barr

The two had been together since they were little girls, and so loved and hated each other like sisters. — Christopher Moore

There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you ... — Taylor Swift

Listen to the sound of the earth turning. — Yoko Ono

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on. — George Herbert

Perhaps I'll call it Luncheon on the Grass, then," said Manet. "Since I've clearly forgotten to paint the model wet enough. — Christopher Moore

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. — Shannon Hale

I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car. — Owen Paterson