Vocalized Quotes

#1. I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#2. We come into this world crying and calling, wailing and singing; and for the first months of our life all our needs and instincts, our dissatisfactions and discoveries are immediately vocalized without apology and without censor.

Paul Newham

#3. The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Plato

#4. I live on in the sweetness of old days
with strangers who build new dwellings
on blue hills up to the edge of the sky,
I talk softly with the captured trees
and comfort them sometimes.
How slowly time consumes the core of things,
and soundlessly treads fate's heavy heel.

Edith Sodergran

#5. No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands ... that can do your brain.

Ivan Stoikov

#6. Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

Keri Smith

#7. A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.

Brian Tracy

#9. You, strange puzzle of a girl, are very lucky.

Kelly Creagh

#10. We're here, and it's nighttime. So according to my calculations, we must not have done anything stupid.

Tahereh Mafi

#11. Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?

George Steinbrenner

#12. I did a guest thing on 'My Name Is Earl,' and there is something about being involved in a TV show that's in the midst of its popularity that frees up the creative process.

Jon Favreau

#13. I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it's me on that screen and I don't have control over everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful.

Nia Long

#14. Well this all seems like a bit of a storm in a teacup!

Russell Brand

#15. No matter what you do in life, someone important to you isn't going to like it.

Sonia Friedman

#16. Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#17. When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark "L," the "owL" sound.

Gregory Rabassa