Vitriolo Negro Quotes & Sayings

You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds. — Tana French

I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain. — Casper Van Dien

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun. — Babatunde Adebimpe

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown — Vera Wang

How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge ... We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved ... God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce. — Adam Smith

The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death. — Ed Wood

My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house. — Rob Portman