Venske Concrete Quotes & Sayings

One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively. — Stephenie Meyer

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing. — Elmore Leonard

It's important to note that when you speak on your own behalf, you are not speaking against others but for yourself. Sometimes we think that people who do not agree with us are against us. This is not true. They merely have a different opinion. If I disagree with your convictions about global warming, the economy, or gay marriage, my purpose is not to be antagonistic or difficult. I am simply being true to my own values and convictions. — Geri Scazzero

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. — P.D. James

I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell - she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She, by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. Finally, I really got to this kind of level and I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde! — Marilyn Monroe

Insecurity is unnecessary - you will get what you deserve. — Jack Canfield

The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous. — Anne O'Hare McCormick

If you are running subconscious beliefs that you are not good enough, this will be reflected in various areas of your life, for example, your relationship, your weight, your job as well as your finances. — Mark Bristow

Whenever we begin to feel as if we can no longer go on, HOPE whispers in our ear to remind us that we are strong. — Robert M. Hensel

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket. — Corey Taylor

The child-man, then, is the lost son of a host of economic and cultural changes: the demographic shift I call preadulthood, the Playboy philosophy, feminism, the wild west of our new media, and a shrugging iffiness on the subject of husbands and fathers. He has no life script, no special reason to grow up. Of course, you shouldn't feel too bad for him; he's having a good enough time. — Kay S. Hymowitz

We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Okay. We need to be touching, right?" I reached over to Archer, then held my hand out for Elizabeth. Her skin was cool and so soft I wondered if she'd ever done anything rougher than hold a pen with that hand. Ringo completed the circle and I stifled a smirk. There should have been a Ouija board on the table in front of us. — April White

Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation - the economy structures are experience. — Astra Taylor

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less. — Herbert Croly