Viela Quotes & Sayings

(You know you've reached middle-age if ... ) when you hear 'Boys in the hood' you think of the Ku Klux Klan. — Joey Green

It's dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing. — Audrey Niffenegger

No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader. — Jim Trelease

Now clearly this advantage is when the data on tape has been found and just needs to be transferred back. You need to add a minute or so of seek time to find the data. On large transfers, though, tape should outpace most disk systems. From an ingest perspective, LTO-6 and other enterprise tape formats may be unrivaled when compared on a single unit basis. — George Arthur Crump

I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was ... young. — Anne Rivers Siddons

Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet. — Henning Mankell

I'm only a little ashamed to say I outsprinted the boy. Old habits die hard. It's good to be faster than what's chasing you, but really the important thing in running away is to be faster than the slowest of those being pursued. Rule number one: be ahead of the next man. Or child. — Mark Lawrence

The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity. — John Trudell

It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it. — Diana Wynne Jones

I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having 'no edge' being simple and worse, harmless. — Michael Cunningham

First, the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order. -Jace Wayland — Cassandra Clare

Food keeps us alive, as we all know. Nourishment allows us to grow and be healthy. But good cooking takes us beyond survival and into the realms of culture and pleasure. — Fernando Divina

Some people say that leverage is the secret of the rich, but I believe it's actually the secret of the bankrupt. — Celso Cukierkorn

Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there. — Lee Brice