Voluptas Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad. Bond — Ian Fleming

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think. — Leo Burnett

Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame. — George Wein

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. — Harold Bloom

In the same way as some illiterate, if he saw an open book, would notice the figures, but would not comprehend the letters, so also the stupid and 'animal man' who 'does not perceive the things of God', may see the outward appearance of these visible creatures, but does not understand the reason within. — Hugh Of Saint-Victor

Fiction operates through the senses, and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses. No reader who doesn't actually experience, who isn't made to feel, the story is going to believe anything the fiction writer merely tells him. The first and most obvious characteristic of fiction is that it deals with reality through what can be seen, heard, smelt, tasted, and touched. — Flannery O'Connor

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others. — Plato

If you're in touch with your body, you certainly have an enormous sexual advantage. The mind-body connection is the same in sex as it is in training. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing. — Wanda Sykes

Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row. — Gilbert Gottfried

I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out. — Billy Corgan

I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy. — Mickey Rourke

You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now. — Fetty Wap

God cannot be explained ... God can only be lived. — Meher Baba

Healing of every sort-physical, psychological, energetic, and spiritual-can take place over time or happen in the twinkling of an eye. That our loved ones in heaven know of our suffering and care deeply about us and the onward flow of our lives speaks once again of the love, presence, and connection extending beyond the veil of death. — Lee Lawson