Top 100 Vernon Kay Sayings
#1. It was a small town: Ferguson, Ohio. When you entered there was a big sign and it said, "Welcome to Ferguson. Beware of the Dog." The all-night drugstore closed at noon.
Jackie Vernon
#2. Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
Vernon Howard
#3. Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
Vernon Howard
#4. I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.
Richard Griffiths
#5. You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them
Vernon Howard
#6. Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.
Vernon Howard
#8. It makes sense that that's part of the story and everything, but that's part of any story of any record - where was it record and how long and what were the people doing. I think people want to know where these events are made. That's why I like the word "record."
Justin Vernon
#9. It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
Vernon A. Walters
#10. Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into the realm beyond words ... It is like that small mirror in the fairy tales - you glance in it and what you see is not yourself; for an instant you glimpse the Inaccessible, where no horse or magic carpet can take you. And the soul cries out for it.
Vernon Sproxton
#11. His cold, unmoving face startled me, but the warmth from his hands left me curious and longing for more of his touch.
Magan Vernon
#13. The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.
J. Vernon McGee
#14. We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
Vernon Howard
#15. You would do the same for me. He smiled a big toothy smile before he hopped off my car and walked away, leaving me wondering what was up with the guy in the girl jeans and why I couldn't get him off of my mind.
Magan Vernon
#16. Oh dear God, no, stop!"
Fumblefoot gave her a reproachful look. Stop what?
I have broken into an enchanted manor house and my pony has crapped on the floor. Oh God.
-Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher
#17. You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!
J.K. Rowling
#18. God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.
J. Vernon McGee
#19. Oh, well," yawned Vernon, "we all know that it's you Christians who go in for whips and tortures and burnings alive. Poor degraded sensualists like myself believe in the motto 'Live and let live.
Eleanor Scott
#20. All we have to do is to receive what we are given ... We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
Vernon Howard
#21. Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.
Vernon Howard
#22. I'd have to say, you've got something behind those hazel eyes of yours that I haven't seen in a long time
Magan Vernon
#23. I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music'd out.
Justin Vernon
#24. So we have this eyesore on the property.
No, it's not the beagle. I can understand why you'd think that, though.
Ursula Vernon
#25. And that's how Snuggles the hamster learned that yes, things COULD always get worse.
Ursula Vernon
#26. Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
Vernon Howard
#27. I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.
Justin Vernon
#28. You just gotta love someone with full force, even if it hurts you. Even if you end up regretting it, at least you gave it your all.
Magan Vernon
#29. A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way
Vernon Howard
#30. The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.
Vernon Howard
#31. My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
Vince Vaughn
#32. It is good to be the possessor of some mountain-top experience.
Vernon Johns
#34. I took the last bite of the pie, then licked the plate. Yep. You're looking at the future first baby mama to Blaine Crabtree.
Magan Vernon
#35. Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.
Vernon L. Smith
#36. Maybe you should just take it off up in my room and I can help you get dry." He leaned in, his full lips right on my ear. "Or make you wetter.
Magan Vernon
#37. I could hardly wait for following chapters, which arrived in dribs and drabs, and I began to feel for all the world like the young T.B. Macaulay walking from London to meet the Cambridge coach bearing the next installment of Waverley novels.
Vernon Sproxton
#40. If you learn to trust God when the sun is shining, it is easier to trust Him on the day when there are dark and lowering clouds in the sky and you are in one of life's storms.
J. Vernon McGee
#41. Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
Vernon Law
#42. One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
Vernon Howard
#43. The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley's favorite things - fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers - and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called rabbit food.
J.K. Rowling
#44. Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.
Justin Vernon
#45. Uncle Vernon made another funny noise, like a mouse being trodden on.
J.K. Rowling
#46. It means that I like you for you and you should like you for you.
Magan Vernon
#47. This is the story of how I never stopped running. This is the story of how,
when the wolves knocked, I met them at the door and I became the beast, instead.
Ashe Vernon
#48. Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.
Vernon Jordan
#49. This is God's universe and He does things His way. You may have a better way, but you don't have a universe.
J. Vernon McGee
#50. My favorite idea is doing an all-night tent show starring my friend's band Marijuana Deathsquads, where everyone would wear super-loud headphones, and there would be tons of subs and lights. It'd be really dope.
Justin Vernon
#51. I can fill a church speaking on Revelation and empty it speaking on Romans.
J. Vernon McGee
#53. I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music.
Justin Vernon
#54. And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon.
"Well ... " said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley.
J.K. Rowling
#55. You're brave and not very bright, which is the key to success.
Ursula Vernon
#56. Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.
Vernon Howard
#57. Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
Vernon Duke
#58. A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.
Vernon Lee
#59. Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.
Ursula Vernon
#60. I was a wolf, and they dressed me
in sheepskin
Ashe Vernon
#61. What the eyes see, the heart must believe.
Dai Vernon
#62. After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
Vernon L. Smith
#63. It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
Vernon Howard
#64. I wish I could get you to seriously study the Word of God in order that you might see His road map.
J. Vernon McGee
#65. We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
Vernon Howard
#66. Greed and avarice have clouded their judgment,
Vernon Baker
#67. Dragons have been known to have staring contests with mountains. They usually win.
Ursula Vernon
#68. Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down
Nas
#69. I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.
Justin Vernon
#70. There is a brotherhood within the body of believers, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the common denominator. Friendship and fellowship are the legal tender among believers.
J. Vernon McGee
#71. I have to admit that I'm feeling a little anxious these days. We've all been lied to so much. There's just all this uncertainty we're facing ...
I mean, what if the hokey-pokey ISN'T what it's all about?
Vernon Crumrine
#72. You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.
Vernon Johns
#73. I just feel like why spend all my time doing something that makes me unhappy just to spend my time off thinking about how I have to go back to a job. It's such a vicious cycle that people get stuck in. But I'm also very lucky. I can't sit here too eagerly and say all that.
Justin Vernon
#74. You're in a relationship because you need help, but that's not necessarily why you should be in a relationship. And that's skinny. It doesn't have weight. Skinny love doesn't have a chance because it's not nourished.
Justin Vernon
#75. Uncle Vernon went off to the lumpy bed next door, and Harry was left
J.K. Rowling
#76. There are decent people that I know who don't know how to treat their partner. It's been built up so hard and so high that people are afraid.
Justin Vernon
#77. Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.
Vernon Lee
#78. What happens between people is so misunderstood even between the people who are having the sex.
Justin Vernon
#79. I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
Vernon A. Walters
#80. I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.
Justin Vernon
#81. What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
Vernon Howard
#82. It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I guess. So I just sort of surrounded 'Blood Bank' with three other songs that were very different from one other, and they all kind of came together as a palette cleanser for the last record. And I'm really excited about it.
Justin Vernon
#83. You never have to be scared to look to the future for opportunity.
Justin Vernon
#84. I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.
Justin Vernon
#85. I hate prophesies! All they're good for is an extra club to beat yourself up with after the fact.
Ursula Vernon
#86. I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
Vernon Jordan
#87. Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.
Vernon Cooper
#88. When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
Vernon Howard
#89. Apple is not thinking different anymore, they are getting worse by the day. They've become bottom-dollar and you can see that transition easily.
Justin Vernon
#90. I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It's a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But it's not 148-shows-over-a-year-and-a-half important, though. It's a machine, and it's money, and you just get put on this indie rock cart, and it's embarrassing.
Justin Vernon
#91. Don't tell me you're trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook.
J. Vernon McGee
#93. I'm catching up. I'm satisfied with the show. I think I want to get better and better and keep building. It took a while to figure out how to do it. I didn't know how it was gonna go. I was just like, "I better book a show and just see what happens."
Justin Vernon
#95. At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
Hannah Storm
#96. Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
Vernon Howard
#97. The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Vernon Lee
#99. When Events are delivered to interested parties, in either local or foreign systems, they are generally used to facilitate eventual consistency.
Vaughn Vernon
#100. The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.
J. Vernon McGee
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