Vecos Veins Quotes & Sayings

There comes a time in every man's life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him. — Steven Hardesty

In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves. — Erol Ozan

I always felt like I was challenged, I was never satisfied, and I looked forward to the challenge. From studying high school players to studying kids in college, I always studied the competition, at my position in particular, to make sure I set the standard. — Derrick Brooks

It is what it looks like and is called. A jail. it is not a front for something else, not a facade, not a pseudonym. It is real, the real thing, the thing behind the words. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It's thrilling to fight for a love that's entirely unrequited. — Paulo Coelho

Marijuana gives rise to insanity
not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis. — Eric Schlosser

empathy is taken for granted. When it is gone there is no protection against the wild inside of us. — P.M. Barnes

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre. — Natalie Portman

Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people. — Imtiaz Ali

Knowledge or religion means to be good and to do good, to worship God or to work for God without having the living presence of God. — Witness Lee

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. — Alphonse Karr

I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did. — Rosario Dawson

The blessed damozel lean'd out
From the gold bar of Heaven;
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
Of waters still'd at even;
She had three lilies in her hand,
And the stars in her hair were seven. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti