Vedette Body Quotes & Sayings

In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land. — John Dryden

I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly exciting. — Justine Larbalestier

Can you survive Outside? — Alexander Galati

Happiness doesn't depend on external condition or situation but it depends on mental condition. — Debasish Mridha

Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold. The Winter's Tale, Act 4, Sc.4 — William Shakespeare

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so. — Aisha Tyler

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body. — Eva Zeisel

Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself — Amy Poehler

'Bless Me, Ultima' is quite autobiographical in the sense that I was writing a story about my childhood, my hometown where I grew up, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, on Old Highway 66 and the Pecos River. So a great deal of that environment, landscape, people, got thrown in the novel. — Rudolfo Anaya

Let me be
like
a thing
left
in a
corner
and forgotten — Giuseppe Ungaretti

Coral, my love, you are too pure, too innocent, too alive for me,"
he said slowly, almost carefully. "My world is like a drawing in black
and white on a gray canvas, without a single note of color to bring it
to life. And now, on this pale and melancholic picture, a red flower
has fallen, a warm and scented flower." He sighed. "It's a wonderful
contrast, but too vivid ... — Hannah Fielding

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood? — Anita Desai

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Just the sounds of an old building settling, I tell myself . . . but I wonder. — Stephen King