Vilkaviskis Quotes & Sayings

In a sense, comic books are frozen movies. If you look at a comic book, you are generally seeing the storyboard for a film. The great advantage of comic books, over the years, has been that, if they are frozen movies, they are not limited by budget. They are only limited by imagination. — Michael Uslan

Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole. — Robert Falcon Scott

I think talking is as casual as blogging, and sometimes writing can be as casual as talking. My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible. — Jessica Valenti

A king should never sit easy, Aegon the Conqueror had said, when he commanded his armorers to forge a great seat from the swords laid down by his enemies. — George R R Martin

I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers. — John Blair

In the real world, few plans proceeded as planned. For a mission to succeed, a plan had to be liquid, capable of changing at a moment's notice. — James Rollins

We of course pay the most attention to labels when they're attached to people. In terms of superficial compatibility, self-described Democrats and Republicans get along the least of all major groups on OkCupid - worse even than Protestants and Atheists. — Anonymous

All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported. — Oliver Ellsworth

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating. — Mark Twain

...it is entirely illogical to consider biology in dichotomous terms of genes and environment - all of biology is based on the continuous interaction of both. — Peter Gluckman

To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.
If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while. — Fernando Pessoa

Jesus promised his disciples three things - that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble. — William Barclay

Leave to every one the care of what belongs to him, and disturb not thyself with what is said or done in the world. - ST. THOMAS AQUINAS. — Various

You see, but you do not observe. — Arthur Conan Doyle