Virgil Van Dyke Quotes

#1. If your brain does not receive sufficient stimulus, it might find something else to do - it daydreams, it wanders, it thinks about itself. If this goes on too long, it can affect your mind's normal functioning. Chronic boredom correlates with depression and attention deficits.

Deborah Blum

#2. It is not surprising that emotion untutored by thought results in nearly contentless blather, in which--ironically enough--genuine emotion cannot be adequately expressed.

Theodore Dalrymple

#3. We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.

Timothy Noah

#4. I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.

Bill Bailey

#5. When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.

Kym Whitley

#6. A sheriff arrested me. I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure my men-in-uniform fetish began that day. The sheriff was hot. And he handcuffed me. I've never been the same.

Darynda Jones

#7. Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.

James Allen

#8. To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron's I can think of.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.

Rick Scott

#10. It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. But evidently it wasn't meant to be. When it unraveled, it unraveled in a hurry.

Joseph Teller

#12. Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

John Gay

#13. Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

Charles Dickens

#14. How was I supposed to know 'lucked out' means 'I got screwed over' in Australian?

Elle Lothlorien

#15. A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge