Valdon Landes Quotes

#1. Sometimes you have to be uncomfortable.

Katee Sackhoff

#2. Running is a kind of truth serum. It brutally strips away everything you put on and leaves you with only yourself.

Marc Parent

#3. I like the minute when I can get off the stage and go home, and I know I've done a good job.

Chelsea Handler

#4. There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.

William Kent Krueger

#6. I thought I could play with you a bit, and let you go, but once I had you, Karissa, I had to keep you. I couldn't walk away.

J.M. Darhower

#7. 'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.

Ramez Naam

#8. But the stillness and the brightness of the day were as strange as the chaos and tumult of night, with the trees standing there, and the flowers standing there, looking before them, looking up, yet beholding nothing, eyeless, and so terrible.

Virginia Woolf

#9. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because - like all real love stories - it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.

John Green

#10. Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about.

Tim Cahill

#11. Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

Flannery O'Connor

#12. I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Gordon Ramsay

#13. I tend to have a lot of guy friends.

Bella Thorne

#14. Suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

Patricia Moyes