Virella Watson Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid. — Emmanuel Jal

Throughout my professional life, I have looked upon the Corps as a most valuable part of our naval organization, and this opinion has only been the more confirmed by every year's additional experience in active service. — Samuel Francis Du Pont

Clearly when you're immortal, life is no longer too short to stuff a mushroom. — Alexis Hall

This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb. — Peter Brimelow

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality. — Jean Cocteau

In French culture, the best way of buying time or getting off the hook entirely in a thorny personal situation is to claim that it's complicated. The French did not invent love, but they did invent romance, so they've had more time than any other culture on earth to refine the nuances of its language. — Mark Zero

History is the story of events, with praise or blame. — Cotton Mather

I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like. — Scott Speedman

Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs. — Joan Rivers

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. — V.S. Naipaul

There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin. This house had been empty for a great while; years before his - the ancient man's - birth. It was a place shunned by the people of the village, as it had been shunned by their fathers before them. There were many things said about it, and all were of evil. No one ever went near it, either by day or night. In the village it was a synonym of all that is unholy and dreadful. — William Hope Hodgson