Viminal Quotes & Sayings

The guy's (Shane Spencer) ridiculous. No one hits home runs like that. I'm telling you, man, it's ridiculous. — Derek Jeter

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression. — Wanda Sykes

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us. — Robert Byron

Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way. — Valerie June

Nina stared at the woman who had raised her and saw the truth at last.
Her mother was a lioness. A warrior. A woman who'd chosen a life of hell for herself because she wanted to give up and didn't know how.
And with that small understanding came another, bigger one. Nina suddenly saw her own life in focus. All these years, she'd been traveling the world over, looking for her own truth in other woman's lives.
But it was here all along, at home with the one woman she's never even tried to understand. No wonder Nina had never felt finished, never wanted to publish her photographs of the woman. Her quest had always been leading up to this moment, this understanding. She's been hiding behind the camera, looking through the glass, trying to find herself. But how could she? How could any woman know her own story until she knew her mother's? — Kristin Hannah

The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Joy Division was scheduled to play at Tier 3, but Ian Curtis killed himself a week before the gig. — Kim Gordon

The city of Rome is called the "city of seven hills" and the Vatican is located within its confinement. These are the hills: Palatine, Capitoline, Quirinal, Aventine, Esquiline, Viminal, and Caelian. — Robert Rite

Add one little bit on the end ... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else ... ? There ya go ... alright! — Dan Quayle

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. — Walter Scott

I reached a healthy place in which I was able to stop projecting my needs on another human being. We both came to understand that each of us is limited in our capacity to be for another what is needed, and learned to forgive each other for not being God. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

For Metafiction, in its ascendant and most important phases, was really nothing more than a single-order expansion of its own great theoretical nemisis, Realism: if realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see. — David Foster Wallace

They seemed to despise each other, with a kind of loyalty. — Olivia Sudjic

There are times when I am concerned about Toph's expression when I'm really singing, with vibrato and all, singing the guitar parts and everything - an expression that to the untrained eye might look like abject terror, or revulsion - but I know well enough that it is awe. — Dave Eggers

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates. — James Lasdun