Vilhelmina Van Quotes & Sayings

I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with. — Frank Tashlin

In water so fine, a few minutes of bad memory all but disappear downstream, washed away by ten thousand belly busters, a million cannonballs. Paradise was never heaven-high when I was a boy but waist-deep, an oasis of cutoff blue jeans and raggedy Converse sneakers, sweating bottles of Nehi Grape and Orange Crush, and this stream. I remember the antidote of icy water against my blistered skin, and the taste of mushy tomato and mayonnaise sandwiches, unwrapped from twice-used aluminum foil. I saw my first water moccasin here, and my first real girl, and being a child of the foot washers I have sometimes wondered if this was my Eden, and my serpent. If it was, I didn't hold out any longer than that first poor fool did. — Rick Bragg

A slave was supposed to be like the Holy Ghost - don't see it, don't hear it, but it's always hovering round on ready. — Sue Monk Kidd

So warm, so perfect. You're so fucking perfect." He pulls away to look at me "I can't believe I have you. — Karina Halle

Dying is simply showing up for your time of departure - from this realm. — Art Hochberg

Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around the world, we will lose. If we're not training engineers to make sure that they are equipped here in this country, then companies won't come here. Those investments are what's going to help to make sure that we continue to lead this world economy not just next year, but 10 years from now, 50 years from now, a hundred years from now. — Barack Obama

However, most defects end up costing more than it would have cost to prevent them. Defects are expensive when they occur, both the direct costs of fixing the defects and the indirect costs because of damaged relationships, lost business, and lost development time. — Kent Beck

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu ... — Thomas Moore

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always. — Brahmananda Saraswati

I love going out every night. It's so exciting. — Andy Warhol

Libraries can take the place of God. — Umberto Eco