Quotes About Vina

#1. Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile ... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.

Albert Pujols

#2. When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.
Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), Star Trek, 1966

Gene Roddenberry

#3. Keep away from her, said Ameer Merchant, but once the inexorable dynamic of the mythic has been set in motion, you might as well try and keep bees from honey, crooks from money, politicians from babies, philosophers from maybes. Vina had her hooks in me, and the consequence was the story of my life.

Salman Rushdie

#4. Shit,' Vina scoffed. 'That boy is every woman's type. I could rent him out to the Mormons so they don't have to electrocute their lesbos anymore.

Aimee Love

#5. I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)

Salman Rushdie

#6. You're the only distraction I want. You're the one exception to my rules.

Vina Arno

#7. Everything that's worth having hurts in some way or other.

Vina Delmar

#8. I guess it was easier for her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs.

Vina Delmar

#9. The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.

Vina Delmar

#10. I guess a man's best friend is his mother.

Vina Delmar

#11. For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

Christian Morgenstern

#12. Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.

Gertrude Atherton

#13. I knew her a long time. The truth was we both had certain expectations of each other. In the end, I suppose they were too high.

Kathleen Tessaro

#14. The things we teach our children are cheerful, pleasant lies: and it is high time that someone has the fortitude to admit it

Vina Delmar

#15. Family life, even with just one little boy, had its own familiar rhythms, and it was perfectly possible to keep right on dancing like you always have, even when your mind is somewhere else.

Liane Moriarty

#16. But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.

Anthony Doerr