Baron Vladimir Quotes

#1. Sometimes I wonder about Piter," the Baron said. "I cause pain out of necessity, but he ... I swear he takes a positive delight in it."
-Baron Vladimir

Frank Herbert

#2. Baron Vladimir Harkonnen had made a lifetime career of seeking new experiences. He dabbled in hedonistic pleasures - rich foods, exotic drugs, deviant sex - discovering things he had never done before.
But a baby in Harkonnen Keep ... how would he handle that?

Brian Herbert

#3. Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.
-Baron Vladimir

Frank Herbert

#4. Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Henry Ford

#5. In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

Jef I. Richards

#6. Come, come," the Baron said. "We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear Duke." The Baron looked up at Piter who stood at Leto's shoulder. "Piter doesn't have all his tools here, but I'm sure he could improvise."
"Improvisation is sometimes the best, Baron.

Frank Herbert

#7. You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing - your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.

David Foster Wallace

#8. I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

George Eads

#9. How many things are there which I do not want.

Socrates

#10. I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I'm just an entertainer.

Elvis Presley

#11. Ain't nobody gonna care enough to catch you fall.

The Weeknd

#12. There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them. As an actress, you get to go to these events and wear their things - it's fun, but it is what it is. I don't put a lot of time into it, but I respect what they do.

Penelope Cruz

#13. She is in love, she craves sugar, eats a dried apricot, another. All at once she is really tired. She will not wait any longer for Romain and goes to bed. She is not guilty because, she keeps telling herself, thrilled, she had no say in it. She falls asleep immediately.

Herve Le Tellier

#14. aesthete sometimes, Sonmi. Perhaps those deprived

David Mitchell

#15. To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

Nhat Hanh

#16. Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

Charlie Munger

#17. The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Thomas A Kempis

#18. The Saviour is the Source of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Man is never mightier than his Maker.

Lailah Gifty Akita