Tortuous Veins Quotes

#1. I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my own
memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called
rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,
a great human gift disowned.

Grace Paley

#2. Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.

Peter Morgan

#4. Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

Joseph Hall

#5. Did he know that undoubtedly the time would come occasionally when the ghosts of Kevin's past would loom up and haunt him again?
"Yes," he said, "Don't they for all of us?

Torey L. Hayden

#6. All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Neil Armstrong

#7. Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughters were mysteries. They lived in rooms you had long since abandoned and could not, did not, ever want to reenter.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#8. I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa

Kendrick Lamar

#9. Revenge was a fierce calling from deep within his soul, a cry, a demand for due recompense.

Madison Thorne Grey

#10. Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Michael Shannon

#11. In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.

Michael Caine

#12. Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.

Kamila Shamsie