Vornehmer Quotes & Sayings

After I have taught you the ancient arts, you will be able to see the past much better than any movie. — Stephen Boston

Debbie shuffled back through her notes. "The president of the Owyhee Land and Irrigation Company was Whipple Phillips." "Whipple?" chuckled Xela. "Yep." "Don't name 'em like that anymore," said Roger. — Peter Clines

I promise to keep her secure. Then I took two large wads a candle wax, kneaded them into earplugs, and stuff them into my ears. Annabeth nodded sarcastically, letting me know the air plugs are a real fashion statement. I made a face at her ... — Rick Riordan

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press. — Steve Jobs

I'm not one to wallow, but I am one to feel the sting of a slap for a while, I think. — Jenny Slate

'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns. — Lea Thompson

Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change. — Seth Godin

Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through. — Patti Smith

Andrew indulged in a little fantasy in which his father dropped dead, gunned down by an invisible sniper. Andrew visualised himself patting his sobbing mother on the back while he telephoned the undertaker. He had a cigarette in his mouth as he ordered the cheapest coffin. — J.K. Rowling

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn. — Thomas Keating

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio. — Billy Gibbons

Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel? — J.C. Reed

Family tradition and genealogical history, upon which much of Sir Everard's discourse turned, is the very reverse of amber, which, itself a valuable substance, usually includes flies, straws, and other trifles; whereas these studies, being themselves very insignificant and trifling, do nevertheless serve to perpetuate a great deal of what is rare and valuable in ancient manners, and to record many curious and minute facts which could have been preserved and conveyed through no other medium. — Walter Scott

I am not very sociable and am always glad to return to solitude and the freedom that goes with solitude. This desire for freedom and solitude has lead to a not only to a consistent effort to avoid situations in which I would be under the control of other people, but also to an indifference to the satisfactions of power and position, things which impose a servitude... — Aldous Huxley