Venus Xtravaganza Quotes

#1. The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

Youssou N'Dour

#2. Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

Honore De Balzac

#3. Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.

Mason Cooley

#4. Doug appeared, clad in an Affliction waffle-knit tee and True Religion jeans. It was 2006, so this was a sign of great success.

Mindy Kaling

#5. It requires all my philosophy, and all my piety' to make peace ...

Sarah Vowell

#6. Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

John Fairclough

#7. It was strange to think that power in this world belonged to old men and young women.

Yangsze Choo

#8. I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#9. There are no composite characters or events in this book. I occasionally omitted people and events, but only when that omission had no impact on either the veracity or the substance of the story.

Cheryl Strayed

#10. Even fiction - perhaps especially fiction - has more truth in it than the author knows.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#11. I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

Jill Soloway