Vellem Quotes

#1. I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.
[Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem.
Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

Ovid

#2. A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when you get in close and agonize over the details. Which I presume is how Yardley got in the habit of keeping himself at a distance.

Pete Dexter

#3. I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

Tommy Lasorda

#4. I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

Javier Bardem

#5. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Carl Sagan

#6. My favorite sports movies, I like 'Remember the Titans' and 'Hoosiers' Jimmy Chitwood, from the corner.

Shaun Alexander

#7. You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.

Raymond Chandler

#9. He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.

V. Theia

#10. One always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.

George Eliot

#11. When you're making a purchasing decision around an appliance or a car or a home, that's when to take the environment into mind, but don't dwell so much on paper versus plastic.

Chip Giller

#12. And I can't help but wonder, did George want to kill me too? I have no doubt that the only thing that stopped him was narcissism-to kill me was also to kill some part of himself, which might also explain why Nate and Ashley survived.

A.M. Homes