Vijugava Quotes

#1. You taste like the last drop of whiskey
at 3 am
after a lousy day
like the first gulp of coffee on a Monday sipped behind a desk
hot and bitter
like the burning at the back of the throat
after the first cigarette
You taste, boy oh boy, like my next mistake.

Malak El Halabi

#2. No human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

John Ruskin

#3. If I sneezed, writers' vitals would spew out my nose like bats from a cave mouth, fiery balls from a roman candle, water from an open fire hydrant.

Dennis Vickers

#4. The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars.

Arthur Miller

#5. One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail.

F. C. S. Schiller

#6. Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

Joanne Harris

#7. A woman reading is a grave temptation.

Rebecca Lee

#8. If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

Khalil Gibran

#9. I quite like being old.

Peter O'Toole

#10. Yes, I do. The ones who aren't growing and evolving, who are standing still. They're the ones who rarely got better.' 'Yes, that was it,' said Gamache. 'They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.' 'Ben,' said Peter.

Louise Penny

#11. I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

Eric Idle

#12. Isn't it interesting that most people don't like to share what they know or have? Imagine a world where doctors, teachers and scientists did the same to you.

Robin Sacredfire

#13. People will try to break you, hate you, ignore you
But if you accept them with love, nothing will touch you.

Debasish Mridha

#14. TV has the longest recall. You remember what you've seen for longer; it has engagement and emotion. It's the most talked about.

Christopher Locke

#15. One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

Aristophanes