Verdick Tree Quotes & Sayings

Ignorance is not the inability to see, but the act of ignoring what is really going on in favour of what we imagine. — Steve Hagen

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made. — Henry David Thoreau

As time goes on you're getting more knowledge of your playbook and football, and you just pick it up a lot easier. Lining up everywhere is just second nature to me now. — Rob Gronkowski

Now that part of his head which nature designed for the reservoir of drink being very shallow, a small quantity of liquor overflowed it and opened the sluices of his heart, so that all the secrets there deposited run out. — Henry Fielding

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days. — Marina Warner

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them. — Philibert Joseph Roux

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. — George Dennison Prentice

I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths. — Max Tundra

The strong are given more to bear than the weak and learn from the challenge. — Eli Gottlieb

Stop making me fall in love with you, Cap, we both know it can't go anywhere. — James S.A. Corey

In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that I have learned. — Ravi Shankar