Vantages Quotes

#1. It is war's prize to take all vantages;
And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

William Shakespeare

#2. One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages.

Molly Antopol

#3. Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge ... The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

Angela Carter

#4. Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.

Paracelsus

#5. Why are you covering your breasts?"
Turning her back to him, she stepped into her dress.
"Why are you so interested in my breasts?"
"I am only interested in them because you hide them," he informed her. "I would not find them interesting if you would stop wearing clothing.

Viola Rivard

#6. My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.

Jock Sturges

#7. Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.

Rachel Higginson

#8. Jen Lawrence is quite a fan of 'Game of Thrones.'

Peter Dinklage

#9. Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost.

Alice Sebold

#10. Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

Karen Thompson Walker

#11. How can I get past this, when I can't fully have you?

Elizabeth Finn

#12. Magnus didn't really want this kind of thing this early in the morning - this talk of aching memories and wanting to forget. This conversation needed to end, now.

Cassandra Clare

#13. My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

Robin Williams

#14. But oh, the irony of meeting about green initiatives over tiny disposable water bottles.

Tracy Ewens

#15. Friendship is full of dregs.

William Shakespeare

#16. The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Meryl Streep