Vile Bodies Quotes

#1. Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Charlotte Bronte

#2. If not for my diaries, I would swear I had lived only half as long as I have. Long periods of my life seem to have vanished. And now I read the passages and wonder who I was when I wrote them, for I cannot remember the events of my life. There are times I sit and wonder where it all has gone.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.

Hank Haney

#4. But we were lonely. we had nobody to play with. The gay child, the inventive child, the spirited and wild child, was lonely.

Anais Nin

#5. So I'm into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.

Mindy Kaling

#6. A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

Robert Musil

#7. I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

#8. Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Walter Pater

#9. I guess I'm depressed. I don't know. I can't explain it. Part of it is the irritability of being 84, and part of it is being not as physically strong as I once was. And part of it is my misunderstanding, I think, of what's going on in the world.

Toni Morrison

#10. It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

Spider Robinson

#11. is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved.

S.M. Butler