Vendler Aspectual Quotes & Sayings

Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips. — Jennifer Webb

There is nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. When you've lost it all, that's when you finally realize that life is beautiful. — Nikki Sixx

Don't run away from it, just because it's difficult. — Harriet Evans

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied — Edward Jenks

There is nothing in this world that was ever more mine than you. — Aly Martinez

It's real good to be back with you again this year. — Dick Clark

In the American oligarchy, the President is a temporary chairman of the board who is there to take responsibility for actions decided in private sessions. He is there to sell policy more than to make it. — Diana Johnstone

I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to perish through the present ones. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Because once the force field blew, you'd be the first ones they'd try to capture, and the less you knew, the better," says Haymitch. "The first ones? Why?" I say, trying to hang on to the train of thought. "For the same reason the rest of us agreed to die to keep you alive," says Finnick. — Suzanne Collins

There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence. — James Purdy

As she made coffee in the kitchen and tried to spoon the frozen ice-cream from its carton without snapping the shaft off the spoon, Elizabeth was struck, not for the first time, by the thought that her life was entirely frivolous.
It was a rush and slither of trivial crises; of uncertain cash-flow, small triumphs, occasional sex and too many cigarettes; of missed deadlines that turned out not to matter; of arguments, new clothes, bursts of altruism and sincere resolutions to address the important things. Of all these and the other experiences that made up her life, the most significant aspect was the one suggested by the words 'turned out not to matter'. Although she was happy enough with what she had become, it was this continued sense of the easy, the inessential nature of what she did, that most irritated her. She thought of Tom Brennan, who had known only life or death, then death in life. In her generation there was no intensity. — Sebastian Faulks

To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one's breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense- the power to enjoy through the eye, and the ear, and the imagination- is just as important a factor in the scheme of human happiness as the corporeal sense of eating and drinking; but there has never been a time when the world would admit it. — John Van Dyke

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not. — Coco J. Ginger

You have to teach 'em not to mess with you. You gotta be the big guy don't let him hurt you. If he hits you stand back up and beat the shit out of him. — Skye Perez

The woman looked up at Lift. "He's right about that, um..."
"Say it," Lift said.
"Your Pancakefulness."
"Rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it? — Brandon Sanderson