Vestiario Quotes & Sayings

I stood there for a few more seconds, watching her go. And I couldn't do anything but admire her courage, her compassion. I wanted her. I wanted her so badly I was shaking. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

If you felt like a smoke and couldn't find a pipe, a book was your man every time. Cohen realized people wrote things in books. It had always seemed to him to be a frivolous waste of paper. — Terry Pratchett

The future of mankind depends very much upon the recognition of the shadow. — C. G. Jung

When he read James Wilkinson's book The Human Body in 1851, Thoreau was impressed. "Wilkinson's book," he wrote in his journal, "to some extent realizes what I have dreamed of, -a return to the primitive analogical and derivative sense of words. His ability to trace analogies often leads to a truer word than more remarkable writers have found ... The faith he puts in old and current expressions as having sprung from an instinct wiser than science, and safely to be trusted if they can be interpreted ... Wilkinson finds a home for the imagination ... All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy; we reason from our hands to our heads. — Henry David Thoreau

Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean, higher than any bird ever flew, longer than there've been stars up in the heavens, I've been in love with you. — Dan Fogelberg

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. — John Le Carre