Veltassa Quotes & Sayings

And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul ... the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies. — Kate Chopin

We have the best congressmen that money can buy. — Jo Ann Dearing

Life is mapped out by a series of choices and coincidences ... miracles and fate are figments of a dreamer's imagination. — Lisa De Jong

It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them part of your blood; let the enriched blood visit your brain. The resultant activities will be fairly your own, and the little kinks and convolutions of your brain, which are entirely different from the kinks of any other brain, will furnish you all the style you will ever get.
There are no really fresh ideas; just as there is not any fresh air. Air and ideas are refreshed and refreshing, vitalized and vitalizing; but the thoughts have been thought before and the air has been breathed before. — Eugene Manlove Rhodes

One of the highest and surest signs of civilization is that a people have learned to obey the commands of those who are placed over them. — Booker T. Washington

However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God. — Sarada Devi

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful. — Bethenny Frankel

Alphaville is the title of one of my favorite movies. Jean-Luc Godard. — Haruki Murakami

What he works at makes no matter. What matters is, he works. The Father rules, the Warrior fights, the Smith labors, and together they perform all that is rightful for a man. — George R R Martin

My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with heavy guns and the town is being swept by shrapnel. I myself am O.K. but the front line is being buried. — Gordon Bennett

I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me. — Banksy