List of Topics starting with [V]

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

You know, I run the Vegas Deluxe website and that really is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And we have more stars ...

It is because people exist in varyinig degrees of the dream.

If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby ...

Tagged by a whiny little vamp. Rache, take this sword and stick it in me. Just go and stick it in me. I'm a back-drafted, ...

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.

Put life into living, and do it with enthusiasm!

The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a ...

You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are ...

People who spend their time searching for feet of clay will miss not only the heavens wherein God moves in His majesty and power, but ...

While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial ...

The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was ...

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

The human life form vibrates at a certain rate, but all vibratory rates are not suitable for human life. So it's very necessary to meditate ...

I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of ...

Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

Main Street is almost alright.

Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

There is nothing negative about a group of people crying out for democracy - and if my voice counts, I will be vocal.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll ...

Val Kilmer gave my husband, David Mamet, a Randall knife as a gift when the two of them were making the film 'Spartan.'

We don't do business with companies. We do business with people.

The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible.

Like the small votives they lit in church.) Sometimes the houses were deserted, even partially destroyed. Sometimes it seemed the families must still be upstairs. ...

A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are ...

This new, telegraphic writing style also influenced public speaking: short sound bites became popular because they were easier for stenographers to transcribe, and cheaper and ...

People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped ...

Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep ...

Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles, Yashvin was Vronsky's greatest friend in the regiment.

Love is fatal; a snake that slithers into your life, poisons you with its venom and then leaves you there to die.

Soldier, there is a war between the mindAnd sky, between thought and day and night. It isFor that the poet is always in the sun,Patches ...

(A thrill of dread runs through the whole group; ASGARDSREIEN - the ride of the fallen heroes to Valhal - hurtles through the air.)

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise ...

This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of ...

I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with ...

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would ...

Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings ...

A planar geometrical figure with more than three vertices can be decomposed into a set of triangles, and it can be reconstructed from a set ...

Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It's like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so ...

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as ...

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

You're playing hookey for her? You met her, what, five minutes ago? And now she's what? Your girlfriend? Did you give her your varsity jacket?

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I ...

The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that ...

Where are we going?"Rhy's smile widened into a grin. "To Velaris - the City of Starlight.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

Grove Health Center, trilled the woman on the end of the line. She had the vocal automisation that comes to people whose job description might ...

If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, ...

Groop I implore thee," continued the merciless Vogon, "my foonting turlingdromes.

God's love enables us to serve those who mistreat us. - Verda J. Glick ...

The four cardinal points are three: South and North.

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes ...

I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most ...

He laughs and then encloses his arms around me, drawing me in for a hug. And if you need anything, you can call me. I'll ...

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.

The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine - ...

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

There are no straight lines in nature or business.

When I was younger, it was about doing something that made me nervous. Now, it's for many different reasons. I've had the opportunity to have ...

I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies.

The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter ...

Andrew indulged in a little fantasy in which his father dropped dead, gunned down by an invisible sniper. Andrew visualised himself patting his sobbing mother ...

No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.

Better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.

Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless.

And what's with the shirt? You think you're in Fiji?""It's like being on vactaion. all of the time.

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his ...

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial ...

It was so beautiful I could hardly keep my eyes off it. "Father, it's so big," I said. He grinned. "This is nothing, Tim. Wait ...

If you couldn't handle someone who did the impossible, the improbable, the implausible, then you couldn't handle the VRMMO player known as Kirito.

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the ...

Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we're good at, ...

Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming ...

What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.

I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like ...

I have always believed in development over votebank politics.

Our Teddy! Teddy Lupin! Snogging our Victoire! Our cousin! And I asked Teddy what he was doing-James Sirius Potter

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice ...

My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get ...

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a ...

My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated soul ...

Any propensity other than love cannot exist in the spiritual world. There is unlimited variegatedness, but they are all extraordinarily wonderful ways of expressing love.

Jessica swallowed. "I think you had better stick to English." "But Italian is so moving," Dain said. "To ho voluto dal primo che ti vedi." ...

The terror is strong because we don't act like the riot." Pigpen spits likes he's a viper showing his fangs full of venom. "My old ...

Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.

Your twisting is doneyou have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

These things do not happen in dreams, dear girl,' he said, vanishing up to his neck. 'They happen only in nightmares.'His head spiralled and he ...