Vermagest Quotes & Sayings

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess.
- Ch. 5 — Amy Tan

Just want to read more books and be a knowledgeable female. — Lawrence Hill

What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried? — Piers Anthony

The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it. — Tahir Shah

It is noteworthy, the researcher further argued, that the inscription on the sword was engraved in the Romanian language, and, consequently, we see that Latin was actually Romanian, and not the invented language that for many centuries has passed for ancient Latin. — Vladimir Lorchenkov

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin. — Harold Bloom

Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon. — Maria V. Snyder

I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia's overly broad Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, which ostensibly covers the 'planning, preparation, conspiracy, incitement and attempt' of terrorist acts. — Eskinder Nega

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. — Charles De Secondat

Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. — G.K. Chesterton