Vipond Gregory Quotes

#1. She 'didn't care much for reading', she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces.

George Orwell

#2. My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. Beer's nice for being glad and dizzy, and sometimes for the mystery and stuff, but the happy that comes out of a beer can is not like the real happy you got to make in your heart.

Tom Robbins

#4. Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

Patrick DeWitt

#5. I think people are complacent about sound, because we're so limited by the textures and timbres we hear in music, but in our everyday life we hear the most incredible things.

Herbert

#6. The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself.

Henry James

#7. An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.

Joe Bousquet

#8. I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

Andy Hertzfeld

#9. He crushes his lips to mine. My face is already wet from tears, but the kiss isn't sweet and romantic. At that moment, it feels like a kiss of life or death. It is carnal and harsh. I will never forget this kiss.

Lauren Helms

#10. But sleep was busy elsewhere

Gail Carson Levine