Vinjar Pettersen Quotes & Sayings

It's always too early to quit. — Norman Vincent Peale

For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next. — William Goldman

Hell or high water, Cupid marches on. In which war, he didn't say. — Matthew Salesses

But they have preserved an aspect of the American persona that is uniquely vital to the health of this republic. Among many other things, those dirtbag river runners uphold the virtue of disobedience: the principle that in a free society, defiance for its own sake sometimes carries value and meaning, if only because power in all of its forms - commercial, governmental, and moral - should not always and without question be handed what it demands. — Kevin Fedarko

Just then she heard something splashing — Lewis Carroll

There are people who are genuinely upset in the Tea Party. I understand that. But that movement was funded with seed money from right-wing billionaires, the Koch brothers, and promoted on Fox News, and turned into a stocking horse for the right-wing agenda that a lot of people have been trying to push on the country for a long time. — Al Gore

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by. — William Hazlitt

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear. — Joss Whedon

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to. — Matt Groening

Niko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet. — Janet Morris

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again. — Jane Austen

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one's hands are fast enough. — Robert Bringhurst

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. — William Butler Yeats

We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk. — Al Bernstein