Vedrinismo Quotes

#1. We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Paul Auster

#2. I thought the whole world was like Lorain.

Toni Morrison

#3. Then Alec had smiled at one of Magnus's jokes, and the smile had lit a lamp in his solemn face, making his blue eyes brilliant, and briefly taking Magnus's breath away

Cassandra Clare

#4. If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

Paul Fussell

#5. The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they're validating your business model. But they're giving $5m out to 20 different people, hoping one of them will be a hit. They don't really care if it's you.

Jon Oringer

#6. It's hard to go underground when you weigh 400 pounds, Marcus. That's why they'll have to bury you in a piano case.

Jem Fox

#7. The end of the story is of your making, nobody else's. You can do with it as you choose. There are as many paths open to your hero as branches on a great tree. They are wonderful and terrible, and plain and twisted. They touch and part and intermingle, and you can follow them whatever way you will.

Juliet Marillier

#8. Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Bernard Tschumi

#9. Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and turn to your own duty, and the dull blank life that lies before you. You might have known such happiness was not for you.

Anne Bronte

#10. Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?

Robert Adams

#11. Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.

Larry Wall

#12. It will probably be admitted that Miller is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a single glance; and, after all, he is a completely negative, unconstructive, amoral writer, a mere Jonah, a passive accepter of evil, a sort of Whitman among the corpses.

George Orwell

#13. I'm hungry, Raul," she said from the head of the stairs. "Want to go down and see what this old ship's galley can whomp up for lunch?

Dan Simmons

#14. It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.

Malcolm Gladwell

#15. It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

Will Rogers