Vakaru Quotes

#1. It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.

Orson Scott Card

#2. I didn't want to want him, but it was like choosing not to breathe. It just wasn't possible. My soul kept fighting for him like my lungs would for air.

Stormy Smith

#3. It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit.

Sam McDowell

#4. Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.

Georg Buchner

#5. When he came there was no light. When he left there was no darkness.

Mark Batterson

#6. What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

John Gardner

#7. If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.

Dalai Lama XIV

#8. What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?

Berenice Abbott

#9. Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

Richard Dooling