Venissent Quotes & Sayings

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them. — Ryan McGinley

The attacks on global warming are no different than the attacks the cigarettes companies used to use to say that cigarettes don't cause cancer. — Leonard Mlodinow

My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic. — Blaise Aguera Y Arcas

Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the dark, and, just as important, allowing me to read secretly, after my bedtime, using the dim hallway light to read by, if I needed to. I always needed to. — Neil Gaiman

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. — Alexandre Dumas

Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world. — Kofi Annan

What evidence could possibly be put forward to show that one could have acted differently in the past? — Sam Harris

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it. — Marvin Hamlisch

Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys. — Lance Henriksen

Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve. — Kurt Vonnegut

You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you. — Janis Joplin

Braden arched his brow as Maggie walked away. She was truly something else. What she was, he couldn't say in polite company, but never before had he met a woman quite like her. — Kinley MacGregor

As the crow flies-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. — William Henry Maule

There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self. — Charles Horton Cooley