Vjas Academy Quotes

#1. Not only are you what you eat, but you also can be what's eating you. Don't become your problems or let them overtake you.

Anthony Liccione

#2. A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Sol LeWitt

#3. Poor thing. If she wasn't being thrown into trees or attacked by his kin, she was being mystically flung to the ground by his old, terrifying great-great-aunt.
It was really going to be impossible to talk to Braith in a rational, calm manner after all this.

G.A. Aiken

#4. With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process.

Robert Crumb

#5. My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.

Henry Cavill

#6. One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political liberalization, he attacked the Church to demonstrate to old Party members that he hadn't lost it.

George Pattison

#7. A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

John C. Wright

#8. Ah yes, a mother. I had one of those, once. She was prettier, though.

K.F. Breene

#9. It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

Ivan Panin

#10. He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and he allowed access only to the most highly refined sensations, to crises of faith and to violent disorders of the senses.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#11. I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.

Susanne Bier

#12. The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.

Jack Kent Cooke

#13. As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes or a touch of wilderness in their souls, rapids will be run.

Sigurd F. Olson

#14. You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

Boris Yeltsin

#15. Somebody cracks a joke, a whole row laughs, one witticism sets off another, and, like matches, they flare up and burn down.

Joseph Roth