Vervoort In Forest Quotes & Sayings

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts. — Italo Calvino

How have we lived in the same place for all these years and only just met?

Because we weren't meant to meet then. This is our now. — Micalea Smeltzer

Rain is the last thing you want when you're chasing someone in Miami. They drive shitty enough as it is, but on top of that, snow is a foreign concept, which means they never got the crash course in traction judgment for when pavement slickness turns less than ideal. And because of the land-sea temperature differential, Florida has regular afternoon rain showers. Nothing big, over in a jiff. But minutes later, all major intersections in Miami-Dade are clogged with debris from spectacular smash-ups. In Northern states, snow teaches drivers real fast about the Newtonian physics of large moving objects. I haven't seen snow either, but I drink coffee, so the calculus of tire-grip ratio is intuitive to my body. — Tim Dorsey

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage. — Manning Marable

If you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand. — Doris Lessing

Tried praying for him ... but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it. — Markus Zusak

For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed,
your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed
Alleluia! — Walsham How

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist. — Meghan Trainor

Some musicians are not great technicians, but they give you a rich point of view. — Nathan Milstein

I've lost many of my best friends ... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends. — Elia Kazan

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion. — Geoffrey Beene

I am a deeply superficial person. — Andy Warhol

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful. — Martin Seligman

You have both been so busy learning tactics and studying battles, you have failed to see the truth of where thrones are won and lost. It is in the gossip, the words and letters passed in dark corners, the shadow alliances and the secret payments. You think I am worthless? I can do things you could never dream of. — Kiersten White