Viscerotonic Temperament Quotes & Sayings

See and keep silent. — Francis Walsingham

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy. — Paul Giamatti

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being.
It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings.
It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully. — David Levithan

Our top command wanted us to achieve 100 percent success, and to do it with 0 casualties. That may sound admirable - who doesn't want to succeed, and who wants anyone to get hurt? But in war those are incompatible and unrealistic. If 100 percent success, 0 casualties are your goal, you're going to conduct very few operations. You will never take any risks, realistic or otherwise. — Chris Kyle

[Nabokov's] language is made visible ... like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind. — Jerzy Kosinski

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training? — Mahatma Gandhi

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners. — Honore De Balzac

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect. — Edgar Allan Poe

A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else. — Hugh Prather

When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight. — Josh Fox

The challenge is quite formidable if you spell it out explicitly: artists must look at a three-dimensional scene with their two-dimensional retinas and then generate a two-dimensional painting that appears three-dimensional to viewers who look at it with their two-dimensional retinas. — Margaret S. Livingstone

Everything I came up with seemed irreverent or irrelevant. — Patti Smith

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along. — Rocco Buttiglione

The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint — Joe Armstrong

The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read. — Russell Smith