List of Topics starting with [V]

Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, ...

All along, the whole process is about dividingand combining until a clear line is visible betweenwhat I am and what not.

Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses.

The college recruiting process shouldn't be about how many schools have interest in you or how many offers you get, it should be about you ...

'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh.

You know what's not boring? Food, delicious food!

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public ...

The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

Lost luggage is just an opportunity to start afresh.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

Economists have much to be humble about.

I think in high school there's so many cliques. You're never safe.

One of my business partners would remind me that no fashion line lasts forever, that we would hit the down curve eventually, and that we ...

I've learned ... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and ...

There is nothing wrong with crying at the end of a long day.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Be patient, persistent and above all, believe.

The big guys like Google weren't always big. Once they were two kids in a garage. Or a dorm room. Some of them set out ...

In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about ...

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear ...

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because ...

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes ...

But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.

I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical ...

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

Ego is based on judgment. Stop judging and you will be free from the ego: in the Oneness there is no judgment, only Unconditional Love.

But was it worth anything?That's the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand. I am afraid of ...

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all ...

May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?

Anger must be dealt with. It cannot be ignored. Anger is a very strong emotion and, if left to itself, will trap us in destructive ...

It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie that matched. And ...

If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea ...

The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about.

In theater, we know a scheduled season months in advance.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

When Musk is present, the chats tend toward the absurd and fantastic

(Text Message)Lillay/Me Being Held HostageMer Dude Does Not No A Thing About Texting

It's not our job to be liked(teachers)", I reminded her. "Its our job to help them be smart(students)". Secretly, I thought, who gives a rat's ...

He can't make me love him when he's going to leave me. When he wants to leave me. When he knows this is the end.

And when you're that sure and end up getting it that wrong, you lose faith in yourself, your ability to make the right decisions about ...

If you want to get into the business of doing voices for cartoons, you've got to be a good actor. It's all about acting. It's ...

The resulting union of idealism and love of power has led men astray over and over again, and is still doing so in the present ...

I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming," he gushed to his friend Cornel Tengel. "But since ...

TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like 'Breaking Bad' and then go straight into something like ...

This is hard to accept in the age of the Internet. It has been very hard for me to explain that the more data you ...

Born in a stable,Cradled in a manger,In the world His hands have made,Born a stranger.

The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.

Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.

It is better to win over your enemy than to conquer him.

A distant, faded memory of sucking on pennies as a kid popped into his head.

Take me home!" Alex didn't respond, and I shoved his arm.

There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.

Because these papyri transport ideas," he replied. "And ideas have power.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

When I get up in the morning, I go right back to bed again. I feel best in the evening the moment I put out ...

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis ...

I love vegging out in front of the TV, eating pizza!

Sometimes fate is what you make it, and I'm making my life with you.

It is not nonsense and nobody asked you; you aren't competent to have an opinion about it.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.

I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and ...

Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.

It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't ...

O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, ...

In my day we simply didn't believe that it was possible to play as well as these young fellows do. We thought that strength denied ...

My parents were really nice to me.

Not all is silent in the halls of the dead and the rooms of ruin. Even now some of the stuff the Old Ones left ...

Most of the people I know in comedy are not weird or messed up.

I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I'm on ...

Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience.

As a child she was unique, she was a dreamer, she lived in her own world. Where it was safe.

My gun trainer on the first 'G.I. Joe' gave me about a week of commando training, so I got to shoot every single machine gun ...

I think in a creative effort, in any creative effort, you need to, people need to be able to be taking risks and if it ...

There's no material safety data sheet for astatine. If there were, it would just be the word "NO" scrawled over and over in charred blood.

Our body is the temple of our spirit.

Younger writers are always looking for "blurbs," one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the ...

I saw a fleet of fishing boats ... I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the ...

Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.

If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.

Your arm is unvanquished, but not invincible.

Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death, whomever you've had excessive intent of ownership, ...

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

He would, wouldn't he?

I'll drop the oxygen mixture to zero and breathe pure nitrogen until I suffocate. It wouldn't feel bad. The lungs don't have the ability to ...

After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn't interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that ...

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.