Vilettas Arts Quotes & Sayings

I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known ... The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into useful activity instead of being paralyzed by it - is that by the time you reach the end of a novel, you know precisely why you made every decision in the narrative, the multiple purposes of every metaphor and image. — Dean Koontz

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous. — Timothy Findley

I know you know the tale of Baby June You know the way she could deliver a tune She was a killer in a petticoat A little bit of everyone you adore ... And if your baby let you down at night, Well Baby June would make it up alright And I was never happier Than in the arms and charms of her — Terry Moore

And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay. — Morris Chestnut

History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I was lucky to have a great dad. — James McNerney

When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet.' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music.' — Artie Shaw

Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city. — Geraldine Ferraro

One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm. — Ned Vizzini

I once dreamt that the man in the moon took an interest in me and reflected the sun's light directly in my path, lighting the way for my footsteps to sink themselves into the ground. It was wonderful to have my course illuminated by one with a grander perspective than my own. But when I awoke, realizing I could not call on the moon for guidance, my spirit sank until it occurred to me I could talk to the one who had created the moon. And He has lit my path ever since. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Art can be defined as beauty able to transcend the circumstances of its making. — Jane Hirshfield

It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated. — Joseph Addison

I'm certainly not a fan of conversion when you could shoot the movie in 3-D. — James Cameron

People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh