Viney Quotes

#1. An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

Maeve Binchy

#2. To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

Bill Bryson

#3. Say it again, Na'Chi."
"I love you, Light Blade,

Kylie Griffin

#4. I'm almost at the station, just passing the Crown, when I feel a hand on my arm and I wheel around, slipping off the pavement and into the road.

Paula Hawkins

#5. If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.

Lynne Stewart

#6. Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.

Tim Fargo

#7. Time is merely the passing of awareness

Andy Holman

#8. There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

Teresa Of Avila

#9. This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.

John Viney

#10. Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

Merrill Markoe

#11. There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

Robert J. Sawyer

#12. You couldn't set out to be a good witch or a bad witch. It never worked for long. All you could try to be was a witch, as hard as you could.

Terry Pratchett

#13. I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#14. People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Earl Nightingale

#15. One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

Emily Oster

#16. Someone stole my wallet last week. The guy called me up and he was mad at me. He was like 'you gotta get your finances together. You got no cash, your credit cards are maxed out. You don't even have minutes on your calling card. I had to use my card to call you.'

Mike Birbiglia

#17. At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.

Chuck Klosterman