Vvrga Quotes & Sayings

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him. — James Boswell

I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity, black lips parted, and a long, spiderweb-thin filament of a tongue slithered from the salamander's mouth and kissed the sphere's glass in the reflection of my nose. Hi, I love you, too. — Ilona Andrews

I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God. — Neko Case

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound. — Robert A.F. Thurman

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it. — Nicole Krauss

In 1960, for example, the Committee for Long Range Studies of the Brookings Institution prepared a report for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration warning that even indirect contact - i.e., alien artifacts that might possibly be discovered through our space activities on the moon, Mars or Venus or via radio contact with an interstellar civilization - could cause severe psychological dislocations. The study cautioned that "Anthropological files contain many examples of societies, sure of their place in the universe, which have disintegrated when they have had to associate with previously unfamiliar societies espousing different ideas and different life ways; others that survived such an experience usually did so by paying the price of changes in values and attitudes and behavior. — Stanley Kubrick

Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot. — Jim Steinmeyer

God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand. — Michel De Montaigne

The medical implant industry needs to decide if wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation is more important than life saving medical devices, as it is clear that the two are incompatible. — Steven Magee