Vokoun January Quotes & Sayings

If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the bookshelf. If there are good books on it, I may never leave the spot all night. Anybody I really want to talk to is going to make his or her way to that bookshelf sooner or later, anyway, right? Books are a nexus. They start conversations, and they continue conversations, and they make people better conversationalists. I have not found this to be the case with Iron Chef, or even alcohol. — Jonathan Evison

Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general. — Louis MacNeice

It's huge ears drooped over its face, and it brushed them back with one paw, then rose on its hind feet. The Pillsbury Doughboy might have something like this as his pet. — Dean Koontz

Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope. — Robert Baden-Powell

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. — Adrian Rogers

Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a presupposition of doing science. Rather it is a metaphysical and sometimes religious stance that some people have toward science. — Angus J.L. Menuge

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it. — Princess Diana

It often struck me as strange and disagreeable to hear him utter severe strictures upon some of these persons who seemed to me so good. — Leo Tolstoy

They were bodies electric. — Maggie Stiefvater

Most records, you build from the drums and bass up. This one, we started with the vocals in Nashville and recorded them live with just the guitars and tried to make that complete and lovely-sounding without any adornment at all. I really wanted to get something with the vocal that I've never gotten before Armchair Apocrypha. — Andrew Bird