Vokoun Shutout Quotes

#1. I was elected to lead not to read.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#2. I couldn't help noticing that the existential space in which a friend had earnestly advised me to 'confront [my] mortality' bore a striking resemblance to the mall.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#3. Oh, great. She could be a hybrid. Just like her sociology teacher's car.

C.C. Hunter

#4. White marble bridges with dragons sleeping on the end-posts; paved courtyards replete with trees, each strung with twinkling silk lanterns in lieu of fruit; courtiers clothed in a myriad of jewel tones.

Nalini Singh

#5. Made you breakfast. Are you feeling okay? You look a little gray." I grunt. Morning is the devil's time.

Francesca Zappia

#6. Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate ... Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Paul Cezanne

#7. When your friend is decomposing, surely you owe it to them to inhale their death. To do otherwise seems impossible prim.

Nick Harkaway

#8. All there was to it, he was in a panic. He was scared stiff that any minute a fact might come bouncing in that would force him to send me down to Cramer bearing gifts, and there was practically nothing on earth he wouldn't rather do, even eating ice cream with cantaloupe or horseradish on oysters.

Rex Stout

#9. Smile whenever you can, cry whenever necessary

El Chojin

#10. I think old age is nature's way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world.

Terry Goodkind

#11. Black holes may be apertures to elsewhen. Were we to plunge down a black hole, we would re-emerge, it is conjectured, in a different part of the universe and in another epoch in time . . . Black holes may be entrances to Wonderlands. But are there Alices or white rabbits?

Carl Sagan