Vernon Watkins Quotes

#1. What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.

Lao-Tzu

#2. What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.

H.L. Mencken

#3. Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#4. When the business people get done with the arts, all that's left will be entertainment.

Daniel R. Thorne

#5. The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.

Earl Weaver

#6. It wasn't much to most kids. I mean, I was basically getting recognized for being straight dogshit, ignoring that I was straight dogshit, and doing anything in my power just to maintain my dogshittiness. I think on Urban Dictionary that's the definition for insanity - or a Michael Bay film.

Eddie Huang

#7. Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.

Quentin Crisp

#8. The bull, I acknowledged grimly, could be in either direction, since I hadn't seen where he'd run once I closed my eyes. I could only choose between the bull that would take me back and the bull that would take me forward.

Cheryl Strayed

#9. Tracy McGrady is doing things we've never seen from anybody - from any planet!

Bill Walton

#10. Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

Bruce Catton

#11. Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry.

John Steinbeck

#12. To find happiness, it is not quite difficult thing. It is just enough to distinguish the blue of the sky from the pink of peach flowers which are opening out.

Che Lan Vien

#13. I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'

Natasha Lyonne

#14. But to an innovator, being early is not necessarily different from being wrong.

Jon Gertner

#15. Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

George Santayana