Vatche Minassian Quotes

#1. O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Bryan Procter

#2. Take down the walls.
Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness.
Otherwise you may never know hell, but you will not find heaven, either. You will not know fresh air and flying.

Lauren Oliver

#3. Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

Bill Walton

#4. Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney.

Ron Fournier

#5. I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

Paula McLain

#6. A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at another, causes to deviate extensively from his preconceived plan.

Marcel Proust

#7. We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Jay McShann

#8. Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved with mankind.

John Donne

#9. Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

Honore De Balzac

#10. To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.

Guy Deutscher