Vodie Quotes & Sayings

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him. — Martin Luther

You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life. — Alice Dreger

The church must be involved in all seven spheres of life — Sunday Adelaja

Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For some reason men don't often make and keep friends. This is a real tragedy, I think, because in a way, without a tight male friend, you never really are able to see yourself. — Alice Walker

I want to set people up for success, like a good diet plan. If I pick just one, it may not be the right one for you. That's why there are 500 shifts, so you can literally flip it open and have an easy starting point. — Elizabeth Rogers

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends. — George Takei

My mother used to say the more lost you are, the later it got, the more you had invested in not being lost. That's why people who are lost so often keep heading in the same direction. — Ann Patchett

Don't let the world ever take away what makes you unique. And of even more importance, don't ever count your gift as a burden. — T. Davis Bunn

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps. — Leonard Bishop

Yeah," I said. Sometimes I was full of halfhearted yeahs. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The strangest of all the doctrines of the cult of competition, in which admittedly there must be losers as well as winners, is that the result of competition is inevitably good for everybody, that altruistic ends may be met by a system without altruistic motives or altruistic means. — Wendell Berry

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others ... Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material. — Rodney Crowell

I've been audited for many, many years in a row, which I think is unfair, but that's the way it is. — Donald Trump

When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee