Vlahakis Quotes & Sayings

No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel. — Pearl S. Buck

The praying mind, by its mere attitude of faith and earnest expectation, opens itself out to the tremendous inflow of Divine Energy. — A.P. Mukerji

Having you is different from loving you. — Robert Jackson Bennett

Gather all your effort to achieve a single goal and you will be bound to succeed — Sunday Adelaja

I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader. — Karin Slaughter

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. — Milan Kundera

The key is to realize that the value of your possessions, isn't the amount of money you spent to purchase them, it's the amount of pleasure you derive from using them. So, if you never use it, pass it on to someone who will. — Eden Tayadora

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill. — Jon Huntsman Jr.

His mean justified his end. — Lesley Kagen

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity. — Joyce Meyer

Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well. — Casey Affleck

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no. — Victoria Pratt

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. — Barack Obama

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole. — B.W. Powe

I have a big forehead, and I got made fun of all time. When I was a little girl, they used to call me 'five-head.' — Tyra Banks