Vultus Forum Quotes & Sayings

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimize the importance of the individual and maximize the importance of the group. — Mohsin Hamid

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating. — Jarvis Cocker

We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it. — Kelly Corrigan

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon. — Mary Karr

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder. — Judith Viorst

If my battery-operated boyfriend could talk, he's probably say I was smothering him. — Priscilla West

However, science, by its very nature, forms its own inherent boundaries to man's progress. . . Focused as it is on the world out there, categorizing and measuring, theorizing and concluding all things based on external evidence and proof, science misses the core of life: the consciousness doing the experiencing. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer. — Elie Wiesel

One cold November, I resolved to kill the staircase spawn... ("Staircase Man" by Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam) — Arthur K. Flam

Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

In this way Penelope's happy and sad feelings got all mixed up together, until they were not unlike one of those delicious cookies they have nowadays, the ones with a flat circle of sugary cream sandwiched between two chocolate-flavored wafers. In her heart she felt a soft, hidden core of sweet melancholy nestled inside crisp outer layers of joy, and if that is not the very sensation most people feel at some point or other during the holidays, then one would be hard pressed to say what is. — Maryrose Wood

I've reached a certain age where I love to work. I could just live here [at the studio]. — Francisco Costa