Vivrass Quotes & Sayings

Art is as useful as bread. — Azar Nafisi

No one who works for a living should live in poverty. — Edward Kennedy

This is my manifesto. My attempt to nudge people toward something, or back toward something. Toward what? An understanding that most of us already have on a deeper level. That a world exists outside of us. A world that reminds us that we are animals, too, animals who have evolved along with other animals on this earth. Thinking, planning, scheming, talking, writing animals, but animals nonetheless. — David Gessner

Seeking, knowing, discovering, enjoying- these faculties or powers are pale and lifeless without realization. — Henry Miller

Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not. But one veil hangs over past, present, and future, and it is the province of the historian to find out, not what was, but what is. Where a battle has been fought, you will find nothing but the bones of men and beasts; where a battle is being fought, there are hearts beating. We will sit on a mound and muse, and not try to make these skeletons stand on their legs again. Does Nature remember, think you, that they were men, or not rather that they are bones? — Henry David Thoreau

If God is love, then any regilion based on hatred, discrimination, punishments and prohibitions is from the Devil. — Kimberly Loskov

The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought. — Patrick Rothfuss

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them. — John McPhee

How far was a feeling genuine if it did not find expression in an external act? — Brian W. Aldiss

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose. — Norm MacDonald

It didn't take him long, and he pulled up nearly nose-to-nose with Ash as they came in from opposite directions.
"You shaved off your ... " It couldn't rightfully be called a beard, Brooks considered. "Face hair."
"Yeah, it got too hot."
"Uh-huh. — Nora Roberts