Velissa Alldredge Quotes

#1. I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art ... that people actually paid for it ... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.

Wade Guyton

#2. Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.

Joshua L. Goldberg

#3. THREE MONTHS HAVE GONE BY without the taste of Gabriel Storm in my mouth, the scent of his skin in my nostrils, the rush of his powerful body pounding into mine.

Magda Alexander

#4. When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.

Deb Caletti

#5. In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

Rory Kinnear

#6. Well, well. The new head of the People's Atlanta office had come to see me personally. I'd curtsy but I was too tired to get off my donkey and the sword on my back would get in the way.

Ilona Andrews

#7. Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#8. I keep waiting for that movie moment when Reed runs out of the house, screaming for me to come back.

But it never happens.

There's no rain-filled reunion and the only moisture are the tears I can't hold back any longer.

Erin Watt

#9. As each sun rises, it is your choice to wait for some special day to celebrate, or to celebrate that each day is special.

Julia Rose

#10. Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.

Julian Barnes

#11. Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their ideas and themes and problems and ambitions must be commensurately smaller and less important. I would venture that sometimes the opposite is true.

Morris Gleitzman

#12. The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own sex takes possession of them.

Stefan Zweig

#13. There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.

Michael Meade

#14. Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.

George W. Bush