Viegel Quotes & Sayings

Discipline is an index to doctrine. — Tertullian

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck. — Coco Chanel

The humanist, who read too much, ate too much. He quoted and burped, and these two complaints were equally repugnant to his neighbor, a self-made aristocrat, Madame Lenoir. — Marcel Proust

Getting the best response from people is how I base my success. — Dan Fogelberg

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design. — Okakura Kakuzo

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved." — Max Delbruck

To assess a nation through its economic data is a little like re-envisaging oneself via the results of a blood test, whereby the traditional markers of personality and character are set aside and it is made clear that one is at base, where it really counts, a creatinine level of 3.2, a lactate dehydrogenase of 927, a leukocyte (per field) of 2 and a C-reactive protein of 2.42. — Alain De Botton

No more circuses. — Warren Ellis

We can only prosper where we are. — S. Kelley Harrell

I cared what everybody thought more than what I thought. Or more than my heart thought. And that makes me an idiot. — Andrea Portes

Under the radiant towers, the floodlit ramparts,
must have wondered at my impulse to touch her,
which was like touching myself,
the way your own hand feels when you hold it
because you want to feel contained. — Mark Doty

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in. — Joanna Lumley