Vigors Quotes

#1. Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#2. If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

Douglas Rushkoff

#3. Stoop, then, or you will be beaten to your knees. Stoop voluntarily, and you may save a remnant. You have depended on metal and power and they have sustained you as far as they could. You have ignored mind and morale and they have failed you.

Isaac Asimov

#4. To best influence someone's behavior, be a personal example. - Be the one who points out the bright side and serves compliments rather than complaints.

Russell Kyle

#5. In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law.

Kofi Annan

#6. I just want the world to make sense now and then, is that so wrong?

Patrick Ness

#7. I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

Tahar Rahim

#8. When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Umberto Eco

#9. Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

Roy Jenkins

#10. The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath.

John Green

#11. Football players win football games.

Chuck Knox

#12. If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Kenneth L. Pike

#13. Art, in the sense of fine art, often is a kind of religion in our age, because it appears as a means of transcending society at a time when other means of such transcendence are no longer available for many people, particularly the educated.

George Parkin Grant

#14. I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.

Naturi Naughton

#15. I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart.

AnnaLynne McCord