Verlinda Magnusen Quotes

#1. A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

Andrew Dice Clay

#3. I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.

Kangana Ranaut

#4. Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Apuleius

#5. This is the world I'm trying to bring down, the world trying to kill me and everything I care about.

Victoria Aveyard

#6. Names of regions and countries change over time, and it is sometimes common to refer to ancient lands using names assigned to them later in history. However, this linguistic custom has typically been practiced only in the absence of other known and acceptable names for the places in question.

Shlomo Sand

#7. I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition.

Robert Klein

#8. The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.

Timothy Noah

#9. Geez, man, don't give yourself whiplash. You are hurting, if the mention of Victorian underwear will get you worked up. I know a girl ... " - From "Controlled Response

Joey W. Hill

#10. I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony in particular parts of the novella, and to miss it in others.

Philip Kitcher

#11. You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.

Philip Gerard