Vinocour Gems Quotes

#1. Success excuses all risks.

Naomi Novik

#2. To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Simone Weil

#3. I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

Patrick Ness

#4. If anyone does not have three minutes in his life to make an omelette, then life is not worth living.

Raymond Blanc

#5. Putting a damp spoon back in the bowl is the tea-drinking equivalent of sharing a needle. And I did not want to end up with the tea-drinking equivalent of AIDS.

Alan Partridge

#6. As if my whole life up to that time had somehow been safe and now I would ruin all that because, you know, catamarans flip over.

Gary Paulsen

#7. Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Spencer Tracy

#8. A knife? A knife? You come at me with a knife? ... I may be a bastard, a princess, a thief, and a royal. But do you know what the other thing is that makes me more powerful than you?" I said. He curled his lip at me. I held up the knife. "With a knife in my hand, I'm unbeatable.

A.C. Gaughen

#9. I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

Steve Yzerman