Verney Carron Quotes

#1. You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

Toni Morrison

#2. You may not agree, you may not care, but
if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world - and there are plenty - very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.

Mary Oliver

#3. The foundation laid in us before was a foundation of thoughts, traditions, and religion of men

Sunday Adelaja

#4. The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

Penelope Lively

#5. We all wrap ourselves in the mythology we want other people to see us in.

Neil M. Hanson

#6. Five weeks in the hospital fled as if down a sinkhole into the middle of the earth ... Can waiting by definition slow, flash by? ... Time becomes even more elastic than usual
minutes can stretch for ages and days suddenly snap together. [p. 97]

Diane Ackerman

#7. There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

John Hodgman

#8. The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault,

Jack Kerouac

#9. The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

Edsger Dijkstra

#10. I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.

Scott Walker

#11. I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

Martha Wainwright

#12. Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.

Dan Bartlett

#13. We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.

Sherrod Brown

#14. Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#15. The most sincere form of kindness is not to show off our greatness but to help another discover their own.

Charles F. Glassman