List of Topics starting with [V]

Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk away from the ...

What becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals?

Maybe there isn't such a thing as fate. Maybe it's just the opportunities we're given, and what we do with them. I'm beginning to think ...

You can't kill me with a gun. (Thanatos)I know, but it's fun as hell just shooting you. (Zarek)

Her raised his face to the weeping sky, closed his dark eyes, and sighed deeply, a smile playing on his sensuous lips. The bloody hour ...

Dad?""What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us."What should I be when I grow up?"The bird disappears over a far ridge. ...

The most valuable gift one can receive is thoughtful criticism

There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the ...

My only constant is the black hair tie around my wrist. No mans gonna be there for me like this hair tie has. No ones ...

Life is a game and every player is cheating.

When I moved to the United States, I first went to California to be the chef at Campton Place. As much as I loved California, ...

If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of ...

The sun rejuvenates me. When I grow tired, it keeps my mood bright.

Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their reach their full potential ...

Our love is an adventurous melody, our souls forever as one.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain ...

I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to ...

I didn't know how to be what society wanted from me. I couldn't change myself, not even for him. He

By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

Wait, Richard Cheney, as in Dick Cheney? You're a vampire named Dick Cheney? Somehow, that makes you seem more evil.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

Just surrender to the story.

All of them had a restlessness in common.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a ...

Choose to live your faith!

Perhaps, Mathilde thought, watching flakes fall into dark and the empty street, I've been wrong. Perhaps the mother had watched her daughter fail and fail ...

Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. ...

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we ...

Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.

How unlucky she was--born with adventurous hooves that were stuck inside a pen. But she wasn't giving up. If there was a way out, Flora ...

The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind ...

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took ...

If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage

One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.

No one starts a waror rather, no one in his sense ought to do sowithout first being clear in his mind what he intends to ...

I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative ...

I'm not in love with him. I'm in love with the way he erases things.

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three ...

In life I learned that you should not brag, until you've done it And even worse than that.. Could you do it again?? That's why ...

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

Humans have a talent for escalation.-Death

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies ...

I should mention, by the way, that LVR stands for Luminal Velocity Regulator. I suppose it could also stand for Large Venezeulan Rats, but in ...

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...

You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does ...

Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.

My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!

When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power ...

Deep humility. There is nothing the arrogant hate more.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by ...

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle ...

The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the ...

If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

Learning and education have frequently degenerated into the systematic accumulation of facts and information.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.

The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places, even many other ...

First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because ...

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French

All I care about is you. Being with you every day. Seeing you every day. I'm not finished falling in love with you yet.

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

Playing with fire Kitten?

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

You've changed," he said. "You're-uh-""Yes?""Taller.""I hope so. I was ten the last time you saw me.""And your hair's really dark now-and short," he added.

Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

Don't make me sic the Voo-doo on you.

We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.

Smile all the while because life is just a mile; enjoy the journey before it's over.-RVM

Two distinct elements are included under the term "inheritance" - the transmission, and the development of characters;

He traces a line across my face with the tip of his finger, and a moment passes between us. Our eyes feast on one another ...

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

I don't know how many years it was before I arrived at a formulated philosophy that the happiest thing to do, always, when visiting an ...

She was magnificent. She wasn't so much a person as an event, a gigantic presence.

A revolutionary strives to have a tight grasp on reality without the converse being true.

That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway.

Could tell by the trail of drool connecting her lips to the back of her wrist.

You first parents of the human race ... who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

If you want change, it has to be generational. We have this unbelievable opportunity to make that change. Entertainment enables us to entice and educate ...

It is my belief that marriage is made holy by two souls in communion, not by the order of the law.

What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never ...

Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are ...

RVM Thoughts for TodayDon't just be who you are and what you are. Move, Evolve, Change, Grow and become Better each Day.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

If practiced correctly, generosity can induce feelings of shame, inadequacy, and even envy, to name just a few.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without ...