Vestris Quotes & Sayings

I stay in Jersey - it's home, man. It's home. And I think that's the foundation of the true strength of the communities where we live in America. — Joe Piscopo

A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life. — Carl Sagan

It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alteration between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things. — Rasmus Lerdorf

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit. — Wayne Dyer

There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third. — Jose Mourinho

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world. — Rose Kennedy

What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate. — P. J. O'Rourke

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. — Will Rogers

...the literary manifestation of the mind-body dichotomy that dominates today's culture: the split between the "serious" and the "entertaining" - the belief that if a literary work is "serious," it must bore people to death; and if it is "entertaining," it must not communicate anything of importance. (Which means that "the good" has to be painful, and that pleasure has to be mindlessly low-grade.) — Ayn Rand

What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things? — Theresa Villiers

For the first time she realized she'd spent so much time mourning a world that had ended ages ago, hoping to resurrect it, that she'd never paid attention to what it was becoming. Or returning to again, now that it was unfettered. Where were the centaurs, she might have asked instead. Where were the gorgons, the furies, the giants and the gods? — Brian Hodge

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets. — Saadi

The soft and weak overcome the hard and strong. — Laozi

You will try to improve me, Captain, but I tell you it cannot be done. I am resigned to moral apathy and corporeal decrepitude, and have done with projections. No, Captain," with a pining sigh, "I think I will simply sit in the shade and wait for either a customer or death, the latter I might prefer, at such a point. — Michelle Franklin