Chasing Vermeer Quotes

#1. The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

David Baldacci

#2. Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.

Cesar Aira

#3. As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

William Matthews

#4. We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

Pam Brown

#5. Why don't you steal the pattern out of Kenton's '23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West'?" the trombonist, an alumnus of Stan Kenton's big band, said.

James Kaplan

#6. The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.

Simon Blackburn

#7. The Prophet himself was a model of equity toward those who did not share his faith. Through

Tariq Ramadan

#8. What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it.

Robert Jay Lifton

#9. Shut up!" Joe's tone was ugly. "If you ain't willing to try, you can go to hell.

Louis L'Amour

#10. Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

Nellie L. McClung

#11. I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.

Coolio

#12. I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.

Sara Blakely

#13. This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.

Elizabeth Taylor