Vanderboom Brothers Quotes

#1. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.

Paulette Jiles

#2. Everest, son, remember when I told you that asking questions is a sign of weakness?

Jonathan Dunne

#3. An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

Billy Wilder

#4. In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.

Louis Kronenberger

#5. Men become accustomed to poison by degrees

Victor Hugo

#6. Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up ...

Arthur Schopenhauer

#7. Shooting is my principal pastime.

William S. Burroughs

#8. When I was 22, I wasn't too proud to do anything. I was taking out trash, buying stinky vintage clothes, and pulling gross Kleenex out of the pockets.

Sophia Amoruso

#9. Because a jackass brays doesn't mean you have to take it to heart.

Jeanne Phillips