Vilmont Kepp Quotes & Sayings

Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, night, the negative pole, must share equal importance with the positive day. At night, under the influence of cosmic radiations quite different from those of the day, human affairs are apt to come to a crisis. At night most human beings die and are born.
Sleep Has His House describes in the night-time language certain stages in the development of one individual human being. No interpretation is needed of this language we have all spoken in childhood and in our dreams; but for the sake of unity a few words before every section indicate the corresponding events of the day. — Anna Kavan

Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world. — Werner Herzog

Orange is the New Black is a really boring porn. — Mitty Walters

Bad laws make bad customs. — Jane Aiken Hodge

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know. — Sidney Poitier

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself. — Edward B. Hanna

A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy. — Frances Harper

Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation. — Martin Edwards

But woe is me! too early I attended
A youthful suit- it was to gain my grace-
O, one by nature's outwards so commended
That maidens' eyes stuck over all his face.
Love lacked a dwelling and made him her place;
And when in his fair parts she did abide,
She was new lodged and newly deified — William Shakespeare

An idea so dangerous it can't be discussed. I thought we buried all that nonsense back in the Dark Ages. — Alastair Reynolds

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more. — Ben Affleck