Vibius Quotes

#1. To understand the essence and workings of insanity, Gallus Vibius strained his mind so that he tore his judgment from its seat and could never get it back again: he could boast he became mad through wisdom.1

Michel De Montaigne

#2. The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

Paul Caponigro

#3. All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

Neil Simon

#4. My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick - she couldn't even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it.

Robert Plant

#5. For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

James Mercer

#6. No woman has ever stepped on Little America and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

Richard E. Byrd

#7. It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers.

Paula Hawkins

#8. I wish there was a thing called stupid tax, which paid for all the stupid things our government does.

David Levithan

#9. Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun,

Jules Verne

#10. God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful
"severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

Elisabeth Elliot

#11. Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside ... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

Candace Bushnell

#12. around her slender waist.

Chip Hughes