Vitalityand Quotes

#1. The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.

Thorstein Veblen

#2. If we are lucky, they were never retarded enough to create computer viruses and will have no such things as firewalls and security like we have. If they have never experienced a full blown computer failure we'll introduce them to the concept

Thomas Wilson

#3. It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.

Paulo Coelho

#4. I always took note of them, because I think if you're in the black or brown body, you're negotiating them all the time. It's like women taking note of sexism. It's a kind of incoherency that you are constantly negotiating.

Claudia Rankine

#5. into the passenger seat, unable to forget the horror on Eliza's face as we broke into the coffin. Jack Morgan's intel had to be accurate. But I'd never be able to prove it. Mark Talbot had realized this was far bigger than any of us knew. Mary dropped me outside Private's building

James Patterson

#6. I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

Joan Collins

#7. Music is my life. Music runs through my veins. Music inspires me. Music is a part of me. Music is all around us. Music soothes me. Music gives me hope when I lose faith. Music comforts me. Music is my refuge.

Demi Lovato

#8. I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily.

Joycelyn Elders

#9. On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies. Teenage girls with burst ovarian cysts nodded out on morphine. It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#10. I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.

Hunter Hayes

#11. I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.

Patton Oswalt