Verrast Quotes & Sayings

It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking powerful associations, by offering the right stimuli to our nerves (in the right degree and the right order), and by the very beat and vowel-melody and length and brevity of your sentences, you must bring it about that we, we readers, not you, exclaim, 'how mysterious!' or 'loathsome' or whatever it is. Let me taste for myself, and you'll have no need to tell me how I should react. — C.S. Lewis

Happy is the bride that the sun shines on. — Robert Herrick

This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times
or you will be useless. — Mitch Albom

If we all counted our blessings and then shared them with our neighbors, near and far, all our lives would be richer. — Janet Autherine

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone. — Mark McGwire

Pornography causes release of adrenaline from an area in the brain called the locus coeruleus, and this makes the heart race in those who view, or even anticipate, viewing pornography. The sexual pleasure of pornography may be partially caused by release of dopamine from the ventral tegmental area, and this stimulates the nucleus accumbens, one of the key pleasure centers of the brain. — Donald L. Hilton Jr.

No woman worth her salt would listen to a proposal without the word 'love' in it. — Karen Hawkins

Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life. — George W. S. Trow

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost. — Eileen Caddy

To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life. — Maxine Hong Kingston

With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot. — Jam Master Jay

I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works. — Stuart J. Russell

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with. — Simon Travaglia