Victoria Duvall Quotes

#1. Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

Anonymous

#2. It's never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can't see them.

Jandy Nelson

#3. In fact, the Alejandro video ... is a celebration of my love and appreciation for the gay community, my admiration of their bravery, and their love for one another, their courage in their relationships.

Lady Gaga

#4. Although the garment was beautifully designed and well made, the color, a dark velvet that captured the intense tones of a ripe plum or black cherries, would prove a jarring clash with her hair. She added ruefully, "Not with this carrot top. I'll look a fright.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.

Jimmy Carl Black

#6. The swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

Steven D. Levitt

#7. For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event."
...
"Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden

Karen Hawkins

#8. Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Grace Kelly

#9. The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'

Jon Stewart

#10. My only excuse is that I have no reputation myself, and I am thereby well aware of its ephemeral value. Reputation is worthless.
Sebastian Bonnington's love letter to Esme Rawlings

Eloisa James

#11. Not everyone is fodder for books,' said Rosalind.

Jeanne Birdsall

#12. A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are useful. What I object to is the drug companies' advertising, which you see everywhere in the U.S., which claims that they are curing diseases when they're not.

Richard J. Roberts

#13. Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it. You can't take a skunk and dip it in perfume and hope it becomes a puppy. Eventually, the perfume will wear off and you'll still have a skunk on your hands.

Sherry Argov

#14. Victoria was an innocent country gentlewoman who spent her time reading, teaching the local children, painting, gathering armfuls of heather in the meadow. Vivien, by contrast, was pleasure-loving and self-serving... with a moral compass that was most definitely skewed.

Lisa Kleypas

#15. [About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]
We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

Niels Bohr