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Velimir Quotes By Stephen Rodrick

From the outside, Rick Rubin's house above Zuma Beach is a generic millionaire beach home. There's a rarely used tennis court and a circular drive. — Stephen Rodrick

Velimir Quotes By Velimir Khlebnikov

A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world. — Velimir Khlebnikov

Velimir Quotes By Velimir Khlebnikov

But every line we write breathes victory and challenge, the bad temper of a conqueror, underground explosions, howls. We are a volcano. We vomit forth black smoke.
The heavens open and out comes an imposing
Pile of garbage; it looks a lot like Leo Tolstoy — Velimir Khlebnikov

Velimir Quotes By Terry Goodkind

But who I was, who you loved, no longer exists. I have passed on. In your world, only my memory can exist. Your loyalty to me because of that memory is a part of life, but it can become disloyalty to yourself if you hold it so closely that it crowds out the rest of life. — Terry Goodkind

Velimir Quotes By Samuel Johnson

The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock. — Samuel Johnson

Velimir Quotes By Thomas More

We asked him many questions concerning all these things, to which he answered very willingly; we made no inquiries after monsters, than which nothing is more common; for everywhere one may hear of ravenous dogs and wolves, and cruel men-eaters, but it is not so easy to find states that are well and wisely governed. — Thomas More

Velimir Quotes By Velimir Khlebnikov

effect the exchange of labor and services by means of an exchange of heartbeats. estimate every task in terms of heartbeats-the monetary unit of the future, in which all individuals are equally wealthy. take 365 times 317 as the median number of heartbeats in any twenty-four-hour period. — Velimir Khlebnikov

Velimir Quotes By Barbara W. Tuchman

A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: Live for that better day. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Velimir Quotes By Mia Sheridan

He extended his hand. I gripped it. Whatever I have, you have half.
I let out a breath, feeling emotion wash over me. Same goes for you, brother, I said solemnly. — Mia Sheridan

Velimir Quotes By Milton Berle

The last time I saw Marilyn was in late 1959, when I appeared in Let's Make Love at Fox. The wide-eyed Marilyn I had first known was gone. This Marilyn was more beautiful than ever. — Milton Berle

Velimir Quotes By T.D. Jakes

You are no greater than what you believe. — T.D. Jakes

Velimir Quotes By Kyle Petty

When someone's got your rear tires off the ground, you don't have much traction. — Kyle Petty

Velimir Quotes By Ron Chernow

In his self-serving view of events, Lee believed that he had performed a prodigious feat, rescuing his overmatched army from danger and organizing an orderly retreat. "'The American troops would not stand the British bayonets," he insisted to Washington. "You damned poltroon," Washington rejoined, "you never tried them!" Always reluctant to resort to profanities, the chaste Washington cursed at Lee "till the leaves shook on the tree," recalled General Scott. "Charming! Delightful! Never have I enjoyed such swearing before or since. — Ron Chernow

Velimir Quotes By Kim Harrison

Taking a breath, I stepped into the line to find him standing right where I'd left him, smiling with his hand extended. (Rachel and Al) — Kim Harrison

Velimir Quotes By Joseph Monninger

In a universe, on a continent, in a country, in a state, in a county, on a river, in a small yellow boat,' I said. 'That's what Mary used to say to explain the odds of us meeting. And you have to be born in roughly the same period. Those are the odds. And probably you need to speak the same language.'-- Cobb — Joseph Monninger

Velimir Quotes By Richard D. Zanuck

A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star. — Richard D. Zanuck

Velimir Quotes By Velimir Khlebnikov

You are my song, my dark blue dream
Of doves, of winter's drowsy drone,
And sleighs that slow and golden go
Through gray blue shadows on the snow. — Velimir Khlebnikov

Velimir Quotes By Stephen King

Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won't ever make em muffins. — Stephen King

Velimir Quotes By Velimir Khlebnikov

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it. — Velimir Khlebnikov

Velimir Quotes By Charles Spurgeon

True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be. — Charles Spurgeon