Veronique Vienne Quotes

#1. ..but if I can't tell my best friend, who can I tell??

Jane Green

#2. To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

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#3. Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

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#4. In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.

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#5. The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

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#6. To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

Gail Carriger

#7. I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn't need me anymore. I respect my wife a lot for taking all that in. She said, 'I didn't marry a tennis player; you'd retired.' Now it's time to do something else.

Thomas Muster

#8. The richest harvest comes from best-tilled soil.

James Rollins

#9. I did B com but realised that it was not my cup of tea. I was always fascinated by animation, and after I completed my course, I wanted to go abroad and pursue it. I used to sketch a lot and was rather serious about it. But all this was until I joined films.

Emraan Hashmi

#10. Living in Paris is "priceless," but it will cost you. It ain't cheap, yet it is one of the greatest bargains on earth. In our day and age, there are only two ways to get free of money worries: either accumulate wealth, lots of it, or move to Paris.

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#11. The siren that is this city speaks to us insistently even after we've moved away. She belongs to us, truly, and to each in a different way. Paris nous appartient.

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#12. Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

David Coleman

#13. Some people live their lives being perpetual victims and finger pointers. To anyone who points a finger at someone else and lays all the blame at their feet instead of taking responsibility for their own behavior, I would say, I see that finger and you know where you can put it?

Donna Lynn Hope

#14. The things one wants the most, are not things after all.

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#15. Imagine a different world, one in which people do not spend an inordinate amount of energy fuming against their fate each time they make a mistake ... though we all agree that to err is human, each of us individually believes that he or she is the exception ... Make a mistake? Not on my watch!

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#16. Military parades roll down the Champs-Elysees, but pedestrians stroll up ["East Meets West on the Champs-Elysees," Metropolis, March 2006, p73]

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#17. I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

Walter Alston

#18. Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

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