Vietrantour Quotes & Sayings

The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers. — Alicia Ostriker

Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation. — Simon Blackburn

Wednesday, March 23 I know now that I love Clarimonda. That she has entered into the very fiber of my being. It may be that the loves of other men are different. But does there exist one head, one ear, one hand that is exactly like hundreds of millions of others? There are always differences, and it must be so with love. My love is strange, I know that, but is it any the less lovely because of that? Besides, my love makes me happy.

If only I were not so frightened. Sometimes my terror slumbers and I forget it for a few moments, then it wakes and does not leave me. The fear is like a poor mouse trying to escape the grip of a powerful serpent. Just wait a bit, poor sad terror. Very soon, the serpent love will devour you.

"The Spider — Hanns Heinz Ewers

But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop. — Talib Kweli

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us. — Michel De Montaigne

Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds. — Mike Wallace

I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response. — Ellen Dissanayake

I had no idea the amount of people who even knew who I was. Suddenly, they were coming up and saying, "You're my favorite artist." Very surreal. After years of trying to get work, and then coming here and being able to meet some of the fans of Array. — Eric Wight

Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small. — Ayanna Howard

The beauty of a woman is not in her facial makeup but in the kindness of her soul. — Debasish Mridha

I think fitting in is highly overrated. I'd rather just fit out ... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes. — Golda Poretsky

A great idea that excites your organization but not your customer creates no value. A great idea that you cannot implement is a theoretical dream. And a great idea that you implement, but which the competition implements better, is at best a disadvantaged effort and at worst a waste of both time and resources. — Ron Adner

You should get more sun and fresh air. The other day I read in the paper that vitamin D increases our faith in fellow humans. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B. — Lawrence Lessig

Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly. — James Young