Vicki Draves Quotes & Sayings

We Built a Castle Near the Rocks,
we built it out of sand.
Our fortress was an ice-cream box
with turret, tall and grand.
Our men were twigs, our gun were straws
from which we'd sipped at lunch.
We had the best of wars ...
till someone's foot
went
CRUNCH!
[Joan Walsh Anglund] — Jack Prelutsky

I thought how great it would be if we could trade in Fudge for a nice cocker spaniel. — Judy Blume

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do — Benjamin Franklin

She knew the difference between brokenness and people who were not real and all of that, but she just invited you in. — Wayne Earl

I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked! — Julianne Moore

I never understood what common sense mean applied to a complicated problems. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Memory is linked to strong emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker on the wall of the brain. But there's a fine line between a negative moment and a traumatic one. Negative moments get remembered. Traumatic ones get forgotten, or so warped that they are unrecognizable, — Jodi Picoult

We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward. — David Axelrod

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious. — Robin Morgan

No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain ... No scientific theory is sacrosanct ... — Karl Popper

Life needs a room so hermetically sealed to breathe life — Munia Khan

Here is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being — Arthur Conan Doyle