Vitalba Graffeo Quotes

#1. I wouldn't say it came easy, but I understood how to win and I determined how I could do it.

Kurt Busch

#2. ... it struck me that maybe the young girl had just been a prostitute. I felt a momentary sigh of gratitude, and then the awareness stopped me cold, the walls pulsed in on me. How cheap was I?

Colum McCann

#3. Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Robert M. Pirsig

#4. Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

Herodotus

#5. If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war.

Jim Walton

#6. There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president.

Barack Obama

#7. Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

H.L. Mencken

#8. But - but in falling, we fly, don't we? We fly vertically. That's the paradox of vertical flight. Falling is the only way we can fly.

Emil Ostrovski

#9. The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

Scott Turow

#10. if you want to be able to talk about a place, the best thing to do is stay at home.

Pierre Bayard

#11. I think all the poets and artists
have always written for peace and love,
and it hasn't changed much
in the last two or three thousand years.
But we hope.

Maximilian Schell

#12. If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George Patton Jr. (1885-1945)

Thad Forester

#13. Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Ezra Taft Benson

#14. If you think you can kiss her, you probably could have ten minutes ago.

Mark Manson