Vinavil Colla Quotes

#1. The American punctuation rule sticks in the craw of every computer scientist, logician, and linguist, because any ordering of typographical delimiters that fails to reflect the logical nesting of the content makes a shambles of their work.

Steven Pinker

#2. Merkabah is translated as either meaning the throne of god or chariot. Both definitions imply a means of spiritual ascension, not a physical one. They only have it partly right.

L.Z.Marie

#3. We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.

James Elroy Flecker

#4. I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

Graham Elliot

#5. Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

Hugh Hefner

#6. Why did nature not ask my advice about my features?

Matthew Pearl

#7. I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe bets; if they've been around for 2,000 years, there's a reason. It's often a title or just a phrase within the text that will compel me to adapt it.

Mary Zimmerman

#8. The world has narrowed to these dimensions,

Charles Dickens

#9. With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.

Kit Harington