Voltamper Quotes & Sayings

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other — James Thurber

The world belongs to those who know how to speak well, and fortunes are made by those who write well, — V.C. Andrews

It was extraordinary that after thirty years of marriage his wife could not be ready in time on Sunday morning. At last she came, in black satin; the Vicar did not like colours in a clergyman's wife at any time, but on Sundays he was determined that she should wear black; now and then, in conspiracy with Miss Graves, she ventured a white feather or a pink rose in her bonnet, — William Somerset Maugham

One never knows be it days, weeks or years, when the pupil is ready, the teacher appears. — Robert Fisher

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty. — Frank Luntz

And so the doubts begin... Our doom draws nearer, and every man sees it. A strange thing, death. Far away, you can laugh at it, but as it comes closer it looks worse and worse. Close enough to touch, and no one laughs. — Joe Abercrombie

Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe. — Friedrich Engels

You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better. — Courage Knight

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people. — Susan Sontag

I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life. — Georges Bizet

Beauty and folly are generally companions. — Baltasar Gracian

social barriers as artificial distinctions made by the strong to bolster up their weak retainers and keep out the almost strong. Having — F Scott Fitzgerald

A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to read. It's robust and direct-the opposite of gaudy, pretentious language. You achieve plain English when you use the simplest, most straightforward way of expressing an idea. You can still choose interesting words. But you'll avoid fancy ones that have everyday replacements meaning precisely the same thing. — Bryan A. Garner

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall — Stevie Wonder

I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last ... My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be. — Nicole Malachowski