Viretta Quotes & Sayings

Writing about sex is not as personally revealing as one might think, because like anything else you write about, the words are not the deed. I have not done those words, I have done and felt private things for which words such as "sex" and "lust" are only poor apologies. — Doreen Baingana

With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives. — Mary McDonnell

He suddenly felt tremendously happy. He could always go back to being a shepherd. He could always become a crystal salesman again. — Paulo Coelho

I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places. — Jack Dorsey

Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic tenants in Islam that we universally believe in but I think it's very naive to think that Sharia, that legal rulings are derived in a vacuum, that people do not bring their own histories and politics and social pledges to bear when they interpret the Koran. — Mark Durie

Respect Joy. Joy is not something that happens instead of something else important; It isn't a waste of time; It is, really, what time was invented for. -David Sosnowski, Rapture. (Pg. 92) — David Sosnowski

There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there. — Mark Warkentin

New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the mouse, but pointing and pushing at things already seems too complicated and tiring. We're Americans
and until you free our hands from the computer entirely, we can never attain our ultimate goal: Web surfing while eating and masturbating. — Bill Maher

What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening. — Henry Reed

There were no mad flashings of the eye, no lunatic grimace passed over his face. He was not out of his mind, which was so clear and buoyant that he asked himself why he wanted to do it at all. And he said to himself that he wanted to do it because he was evil, thoroughly evil. And he smiled as he said it and was content. He looked quite innocent, like any happy person. — Patrick Suskind

Love's all in all to women. — Euripides

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity. — William Henry Harrison

Combating myopic risk aversion is the most difficult emotional task facing any investor. I know of only two ways of doing this. The first is to check on your portfolios as infrequently as possible. ... The other way to avoid myopic risk aversion is to hold enough cash so that you have a certain equanimity about market falls. — William J. Bernstein