Velious Quotes & Sayings

Was still a fine, persistent drizzle. There was a word in Scots for it - smirr. — Ian Rankin

The poet is a madman lost in adventure. — Paul Verlaine

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken. — Lucinda Williams

1944 - Exploring London in wartime, a city with stiff upper lip, gritted teeth, clenched fists, makes you realize that Paris is a bit of whore.

Every day and every night for weeks now, London has been bleeding and hiding its wounds with impressive dignity. A 'don't show off' attitude prevails. From time to time a sputtering doodle-bug (a VI) shatters the torpor of the overcast sky. One second, sometimes two ... at most three ... of silence. Visualizing that fat cigar with shark fins as it stops dead, sways, idiotically tips over, then goes into a vertical dive. And explodes. Usually it's an entire building that's destroyed.

Apparently the Civil Defense rescue teams observe a very strict rule of discretion and restraint. You never see any panic. In this impassive city detachment is the expression of panic. — Jacques Yonnet

You can't get reconciliation between the powerful and powerless unless you disempower the powerful. — Jason E. Shelton

LADY ANNE:
Villain, thou know'st nor law of God nor man:
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER:
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
LADY ANNE:
O wonderful, when devils tell the troth!
RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER:
More wonderful, when angels are so angry. — William Shakespeare

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of the miracle is here, among us. The eternal as an idea is much less preposterous than time, and this very fact should seize our attention. — Marilynne Robinson

What man can imagine he may one day achieve. — Nancy Hale

The highest aim was never to master Jiu Jitsu; it was to master myself. — Chris Matakas

For me certainly Earl Campbell and Tony Dorsett come to mind, and Roger Staubach. I've grown up here in Dallas watching Roger and his playing career and to be in the same fraternity as Roger Staubach is/was a huge deal for me. — Tim Brown