Vertebrata Dan Quotes & Sayings

My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class. — Bobbie Ann Mason

I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years. — Pierce Brosnan

I'm not sentimental
I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last
the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. — Edie Sedgwick

Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger? — Keith Richards

Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means. — Nelson Mandela

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond. — Ron Rash

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination. — Ben Okri

I've always been making original music. I think that when I sat down with Losing Focus, I approached it different. I had a clearer understanding of who I was talking to, because I was able to go out and tour and see them right in front of me. I wanted to speak to them and speak about this lifestyle. — Young De

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions. — Pablo Picasso

Brown paper represents the primal twilight of the first toil of creation, and with a bright-coloured chalk or two you can pick out points of fire in it, sparks of gold, and blood-red, and sea-green, like the first fierce stars that sprang out of divine darkness. — G.K. Chesterton

"Is it any wonder somebody like Donald Trump is racing through the presidential primary process?" — Rush Limbaugh

Don't be afraid of your own imagination. No matter what you write, there's always someone out there who will appreciate it. — B.A. Gabrielle

Demon's coming! Everyone dies. Except for her useless father. He'll live for ever. — Maggie Stiefvater

The shadows are only the darkest when the light is at its brightest. — Glenn Beck