Vyra Quotes & Sayings

My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artist. He started to do acupuncture when it wasn't so accepted. His spirit and outlook inspire me. — Anna Mouglalis

There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules, — Lee Clow

Most of the young men of talent whom I have met in this country give one the impression of being somewhat demented. Why shouldn't they? They are living amidst spiritual gorillas, living with food and drink maniacs, success-mongers, gadget innovators, publicity hounds. God, if I were a young man today, if I were faced with a world such as we have created, I would blow my brains out. — Henry Miller

But, sir!" Andy protested. "I don't know what happened to it. I didn't do anything with my desk. Did you see me move it?" "My vision is not in question, young man. You expect me to believe your desk simply vanished?" "I don't know what happened to it. I just know I didn't do anything with it." Then, not quietly enough under his breath, Andy added, "You need to get your eyes examined. — L.R.W. Lee

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera — Sebastiao Salgado

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day. — Robert E.Lee

Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After. — Dorothy Cannell

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain. — Ignatius Of Loyola

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window. ... Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die. — Vladimir Nabokov

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. — Bertrand Russell

You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous. — Vince Cable

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels. — Salman Rushdie

Delight,
top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven. — Herman Melville

You love and you hate and you grieve and you don't even feel it. — Lev Grossman

Love is an action word. — Lindsay Lock