Vapurza Quotes

#1. We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

Anna Kamienska

#2. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. In our own lives, let each of us asknot just what government will do for me, but what can I do for myself?

Richard M. Nixon

#4. [Phoebe Broome] 'Well,' she said at last. 'You've now met my father. At his worst.'
[Lord Vladimir] 'Being myself widely considered my family's most difficult member, I would not presume to comment.'
'That is ... gentlemanly of you.

Alison Sinclair

#5. It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Jack Kerouac

#6. The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

Adam Phillips

#7. You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

Dyllan McGee

#8. And always, if he had a little money, a man could get drunk. The hard edges gone, and the warmth. Then there was no loneliness, for a man could people his brain with friends, and he could find his enemies and destroy them.

John Steinbeck

#9. I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.

Cynthia Stevenson

#10. In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

Josephine Tey