Vardress Quotes

#1. A novel is like an animal you have to hunt down and kill. If you let it sit for two days, it's got a two-day head start. So, if I just look at it every day, I'm so much better off.

Daniel Alarcon

#2. I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more.

Slash

#3. I enjoy life so much more now, and I try hard to appreciate each and every day, but deep down I am still afraid it will be taken away.

Jaycee Dugard

#4. Herzog abandoned this theme with characteristic abruptness

Saul Bellow

#5. The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. The most satisfactory proof of intellectual strength is to be found in the existence of a power which enables the mind to conquer its prejudices and to correct its own errors

John Ayrton Paris

#7. I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.

Beck

#8. [ ... ] It's not your job to fix the world; it's your job to live well. That's your birth right. Everyone knows it, but far too few people actually take to implementing it.

Alice Walsh

#9. The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be.

Janine Di Giovanni

#10. As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity.

Junot Diaz

#11. Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Joyce Meyer

#12. Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway through he just gets up, walks up to the podium, socks the mother****er right in the face and takes a piss all over his lecture notes.

George Stigler

#13. There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

Jefferson Smith