Quotes About Vamping

#1. Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution.

Adam Ross

#2. Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.

Robert Aris Willmott

#3. I love you, Hsin," he said hoarsely. "I missed you so much."
"I love you, too." Sin's voice was still thick and husky. "I came back for you. Because I wanted to find you, because I wanted to remember you.

Santino Hassell

#4. I made sure to brush my teeth as soon as I was able. I even asked for a hair tie to pull my long, blood-red hair into a twist at the nape of my neck so I wouldn't have that 'freshly hospitalized' look.

Elle Lothlorien

#5. Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.

Russell Kirk

#6. It is easier to debunk a thousand myths than to write one true sentence.

Marty Rubin

#7. I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.

Rudolf Bing

#8. A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.

Ferdinand Foch

#9. I'm drawn to bad romances.

Lady Gaga

#10. When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.

Cindy Sheehan

#12. The bank had expanded its services in recent years to offer anonymous computer source code escrow services and faceless digitized backup.

Dan Brown

#13. The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#14. So how many women have you visited in their dreams? (Geary)
Is this one of those questions that if I don't answer it correctly, you get angry at me? (Arik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but it must be done with tenderness.

Andrew Sean Greer