Verborum Quotes

#1. The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

Theodor Adorno

#2. Diligence deserves to be rewarded." "In what proportion? And in what currency? These are empty words.

Eleanor Catton

#3. The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

Ida B. Wells

#4. But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

Taylor Hackford

#5. So you don't do one night stands. And you're not looking for a boyfriend, or a husband. What do you want, Reina?"
I swallowed, my throat suddenly dry. How could one sentence strike with the force of a lightning bolt? "How about you make me an offer?

Tara Leigh

#6. For those of us who profess to believe in a particular religious practice, it is extremely important that we try to help each other and cultivate a feeling of affection for each other. That is the source of happiness in our life. The

Dalai Lama XIV

#7. We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

Sally Ride

#8. Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

James Taylor

#9. People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon and drizzle.

Wendy Harmer

#10. I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

Jan Karon

#11. Time is a structured perception towards observable changes.

Toba Beta

#12. Silence, healing.

Heraclitus