List of Topics starting with [V]

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you ...

One of the things I would love to do, by the time I die, is be in every single genre. That would be really fun. ...

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

A large portion of the Earth's land area is taken up by old varsity jackets.

I was starting to hate my sixteenth birthday. A poufy white dress and a cake with roses made out of pink icing and awkward dancing ...

Today is a day of remembrance that is heavy on my heart.

There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you ...

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities ...

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.

They all told me I had a fear of intimacy, but I vehemently disagreed; I craved intimacy like a crack addict.The problem was that I ...

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought ...

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials, corrupting ...

Fellow made me a $10 bet I couldnt quit, and I havent had a drink since. At the time I needed the $10.

Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this ...

Emily gazed long on the splendours of the world she was quitting, of which the whole magnificence seemed thus given to her sight only to ...

You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits ...

There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible ("soit possible", Fr.); now, if this ...

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a ...

The machine, the structure, was there, was real. Virek's money was a sort of universal solvent, dissolving barriers to his will . . .

I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, ...

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

You'll find that as you get vider, you'll get viser. Vidth and visdom, Sammy, alvays grows together.

You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry ...

My favorite part of dreams. Clothing is optional. (V'Aiden)

It is the tuning of the universe ... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny ...

Witnessing the Vette's demise, the way Rick felt, there wasn't a king on Earth who he would bow to. No religious figure whose hand he'd ...

All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as a job credential, ...

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

And I, a vampire who had seduced countless mortals in his impossibly long existence, was forced to admit that it was she, this beautiful young ...

Over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his country, theologian in ...

Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with ...

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.[Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got ...

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of ...

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused in place of the verbose, ...

Simon was still hoping that somewhere in the Sadowhunter manual was the secret of the Vulcan death grip. After all, as his instructors kept reminding ...

What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets ...

Nothing in the world tasted as good for breakfast as stolen rolls with some butter and jam and a mug of milky coffee. Nothing tasted ...

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death ...

Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance ...

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

I don't love her anymoreSoWhy should I walkNightsBy the tavernWhere I drankEvery nightThinking of her?

I saw within Its depth how It conceivesAll things in a single volume bound by Loveof which the universe is the scattered leaves.

But vampires feel cold as acutely as humans, and the blood of the kill is often the rich, sensual alleviation of that cold. But

Given that I don't know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a ...

I don't shop as much as I find.

I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what ...

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their ...

Human ingenuity," wrote Leonardo da Vinci, whose Vitruvian Man became the ultimate symbol of the intersection of art and science, "will never devise any inventions ...

There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.

I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond ...

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - ...

I've worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I'm so proud of all they've done to advance veterinary medicine for ...

The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.[Lat., Quin corpus onustumHesternis ...

I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled ...

You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who ...

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Following Jesus is not a perfect life of nonstop thrills. There are some boring and bad parts. But still there's something different about them, simply ...

It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are ...

'Badmaash Company' and 'Delhi Belly' was about friends, and I was part of the gang. And yes, they did have stars playing the lead! You ...

If loneliness were a grape the wine would be vintage If it were a wood the furniture would be mahogany But since it is life ...

In Canada, you can't even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or even a grizzly bear. Then again, the ...

The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok's wonder The Puppet Show.

I always try to enjoy the game. It is easy to say but it's true. Every game is different, sometimes you feel better inside you ...

Being passive doesn't mean being subservient. Her power lay in how well she chose to respond. There was no subservience involved.

Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), whose Egyptian museum in San Jose took up an entire city block. It stressed the virtues of reason and ...

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to ...

The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic work of the ...

Vivi likes you so it's not like I had to beg her to help. She's got an angelic face and she melts hearts with her ...

We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded ...

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

He was a man on a date with destiny,

I raise my eyebrows. "You're going to settle for plain old vanilla?" He cocks his head to one side. "Nothing plain or old about vanilla-it's ...

I'm a frosted lemon coward

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

No matter what the other person says, then take the bottom line out of it, everything in this world is 'vyavasthit' [result of scientific circumstantial ...

Working to my potential.' It's like every teacher I have has some sort of manual to use when talking to me. She finished with, 'You ...

God huffed and took a couple more breaths before he released his secret to his best friend. No one knew this story except him and ...

Okay? You'll be a knockout. Listen, we'll buy a bottle of high-price Scotch and take it along. That Vat 69.' Frank,

Voldimort wuz wearing a blak leather Jackson, blak tight jeans and fishnet pantz. He looked so sexah I almost had an orgy!!!!

I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.

Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.[Lat., ...

Although, honestly, watching authors fistfight is like watching geese play Jeopardy. There's a lot of honking and squawking but no one ever gets to what ...

It takes skill to win a battle, but brains to win a war.

It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.

The value you get does not depend on what you have, but how much of it you bring to the market place. You don't get ...

Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change.

Shiva" is Life. Shiva can be split as Sha+ee+Va where Sha stands for Shareeram or body, ee stands for eeshwari or life giving energy and ...

Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in ...

We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. ...

All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, ...