Vokster Quotes & Sayings

The black serpant of wounded vanity gnawed at his heart? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic. — Chris Brogan

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing. — Victoria Abril

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check. — Alexander McCall Smith

You can't start putting difficult clothes on a person. They're actors: they have to move, they have to feel real. — Patricia Field

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product. — Marshall McLuhan

When she spoke, the words were rote, taught to her by her captors, dead and empty, and forced. But her voice was rough, like silk torn by sharp diamonds, and I believed, truly, that she wanted nothing more than to disappear into the Tower and never emerge again.
"Please, Saint Sigrid, take me in from the storm and teach me to steer through darkness, for I am lost, and I cannot see the shore."
I did not move for a long moment. Then, slowly, I reached out my hand to her and whispered, "Come, Lady, I will cut your hair for you."
Her hand slipped into mine, hard and cool. — Catherynne M Valente

People are reading. In fact, due to social media they are reading more than any time in history. Now we must find a way to get them to include books in all that reading. It starts with us writers doing a better job of writing. — Will Gibson

To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome. — Iain McGilchrist

If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift. — Robin Trower

That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it. — Stephen Samuel Wise

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

My nose is broken," I said. Damn that Dumbo. Made me self-conscious.
"My ankle's broken," he said.
"Then I'll come to you. — Rick Yancey