Verandas Quotes

#1. Death and life were just adjacent verandas.

Salman Rushdie

#2. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colours, and hair bobbed in strange new ways ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. Maybe - just maybe - going through the small-minded, scared, angry, petty Abbott era is the antidote we needed to combat the slow poison of decades of public apathy about politics.

Andrew P. Street

#4. Finally he said, "Bad writers don't practice, Stella. It's the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right. You are probably better than you think.

Sharon M. Draper

#5. Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.

Lea Salonga

#6. You have to ask good questions. "What can I do to improve?" or "How can I find a better job?" or "How can I be grateful that I lost this job?" Because inside of every problem is the seed of a "difficult gratitude problem" and it always improves your life to solve those problems.

James Altucher

#7. Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear something that a character's saying that you haven't heard before and you react differently.

Taissa Farmiga

#8. In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

Mason Cooley

#9. When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

Tanith Lee

#10. The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead ... The past lies in flames.

Joseph Goebbels

#11. Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet, that very idea has motivated me.

James Nachtwey