Verestchagin Quotes & Sayings

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it. — Lola Kirke

In general we should be aware of, and protective towards, those precious legal instruments that we already possess, and which often depend on principles of equity and natural law and not on top-down legislation. — Roger Scruton

A truly successful person is some one , whose failures are equally spoken as his success. — Gopichand Lagadapati

Just a bit of advice," I mutter. "That sort of physical contact with Chloe Murphy should require a full body condom, lest you contract something extremely difficult - if not impossible - to get rid of. — Kim Holden

Leo went to work with his pliers, reprogramming the signs until the top one flashed: THE DOCTOR IS: IN DA HOUSE. The bottom sign changed to read: NOW SERVING: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO! — Rick Riordan

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term. — Jeff Bezos

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on. — Joe Dante

Sophia Redgrave was obviously living in a world of stereotypical perceptions. — Judy Angelo

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work. — Renee Fleming

How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet. — Anne Rice

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best. — Bernard DeVoto

While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex and highly individual, yet there are common recognizable denominators to the creative recovery process. — Julia Cameron

I was raised in an Italian catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. Our faith is very important to us, our patriotism, love of faith, love of family, love of country. I took pride in our Italian American heritage and to be the first woman speaker of the House and the first Italian American speaker of the House, it's quite thrilling for me. — Nancy Pelosi

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames