Vernotile Quotes & Sayings

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them. — George Polya

Golf is a mental disorder. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Good people can make mistakes. It doesn't mean you stop caring about them. (Clarke) — Kass Morgan

Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here. — Eugene Ormandy

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. — Phaedrus

How's his appendix?"
"Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, being
doted on by an army of hot nurses. Makes me sick."
"Maybeyou should rupture something."
"Any more of these stories out of you and I just might. — Marjorie M. Liu

We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal. — Alexandre Dumas-fils

People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms. — Tim Ferriss

I did not know him, I knew my idea
of him. — Sharon Olds

I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS. — Richard P. Feynman

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that. — Georgette Heyer

We can't find the cat,
We don't know where she's at,
Oh, where did she go?
Does anyone know?
Let's ask this walking hat. — Shel Silverstein

We're a dramatic people," Perry Mason said slowly. "We're not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It's a national craving. We're geared to a rapid rate of thought. We want to have things move in a spectacular manner. — Erle Stanley Gardner

Because everybody on the school board, and the railroad, and the PTA and paper mill had to be somebody's mother or father, whether really or as a member of a category; and there was a point at which the reflex to their covering warmth, protection, effectiveness against bad dreams, bruised heads and simple loneliness took over and made worthwhile anger with them impossible. — Thomas Pynchon