Volaban Quotes & Sayings

If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life [than a non-believer]. — Woody Allen

Every day I practice yoga, read poetry, and translate. What do I need politics for? — Ryszard Kapuscinski

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock. — Viktor Korchnoi

Hard rain falling,
on all the half-hearted
half-formed
fast walking
Half-fury, half-boredom.
Hard talking.
Half dead from exhaustion.
Hard pushed,
but the puddles keep forming

Don't fall in. — Kate Tempest

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. — James Wolcott

Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one. — E.D.E.N. Southworth

Nothing is our except time. — Seneca The Elder

Orbiting a planet, or any significant source of gravity, was a lot like constantly throwing yourself at the ground and figuring out how to miss. — Evan Currie

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. — Ronald Reagan

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time. — Gore Vidal

Fresh blood at midnight isn't red. It's a purplish black that easily blends into the shadows. — Karen Chance

The universe is mad, slightly mad. — Allen Ginsberg

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music. — Paula Cole

No amount of regret can make up for a lifetime lost. — Charles Dickens