Vied Quotes

#1. I've never vied for power in the family before. Pointing a box at the garage door and saying "Open!" was never a big deal, but holding that television tuner and realizing I alone control what is flashed on the screen brings out the Iacocca in me.

Erma Bombeck

#2. That they dared make a town of this wet and sucking thing that vied with my foot for my boot at every step bespoke the glorious and yearning bullshit of men's souls.

Matthew Sharpe

#3. At the same time, Italian sausage, breadsticks, antipasto, and spaghetti vied for air supremacy.

Joanne Fluke

#4. Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.

Bob Weinstein

#5. And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to 'jailbreak' the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed.

Jonathan Zittrain

#7. North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

Franz Grillparzer

#8. Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

Haruki Murakami

#9. She vied so fast, protesting oath after oath,
that in a twink she won me to her love.
O, you are novices. 'Tis a world to see
How tame, when men and women are alone,
A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.

William Shakespeare

#10. With the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood,

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11. The purpose of the word "slut" is: controlling women through shame and humiliation. Women's bodies are always the ones that are being vied over for control - whether it's rape, reproductive rights, or violence against women, it's our bodies that are the battleground, not men's.

Jessica Valenti

#12. Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.

Bette Greene

#13. I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend.

Hamilton Leithauser

#14. Love isn't tested by how good it makes you feel. It's tested by whether you are brave enough to feel every part of it.

Ilie Ruby

#15. And, down there - do you see where I'm pointing?" "Um," Percy said, "you don't have any hands.

Anonymous

#16. She'd also called me brave ... unless she was talking to the catfish.

Rick Riordan

#17. Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

Eugene Field

#19. I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

Shalom Harlow

#20. The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

Adam Christopher