List of Topics starting with [V]

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if ...

Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years

Do SMART Boards and iPads really change pedagogy for the millions of students institutionally ostracized based on their race, religion, or gender? Or are they ...

If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.

Love finds us where we are, not where we were.

In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.

Yeah, I love your hateful messiahs and gods, as I cherish all idiots, and mad dogs.

Anytime you adopt a new system you change work flow and so people have to change, to some degree change the way in which they ...

Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, ...

She's a pile of nanites working together to duplicate the individual parts of a teenage girl on the cellular level, and they don't realize there's ...

Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.

Clean-shaven and dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American millionaires.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

Anyone who bombs is my friend.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second week, ...

No marketing plan is ever going to bring in one soul that was not ordained by the Lord to be saved in the first place.

Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing, ...

But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety, and now the Alethi elite danced with abandon.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing ...

In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their desserts. So vanilla ...

Please you can never compare to me, all these b****es is scared of me. I am who they couldn't even dare to be.

Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

I wanted ... to own you. I wanted a part of me in you." He cringed. "I wanted to mark you, make you mine.

My eyes were heavy, and my awareness hung on by the thinnest of threads, but I thought I heard him mutter. "I think I will ...

Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.

Wade would never write you a song, but I've already written you three.

Let the world change you and you can change the world

Reality is infinite and we are finite and so there is a necessary mismatch between our knowledge of the world and the world itself.

What do you want to know? Usual stuff. Serious relationships, age, whether you eat babies. :-D I'm 30. I think babies are tasty, but empty ...

Shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the ...

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

His smile was alone on his face. His eyes were sad and angry.

I walk where I choose to walk.

Honour looked so much like a child herself, confined to bed, a white nightgown, like one of those maudlin Victorian dolls. Her cheeks were red, ...

What is different, and troubling, is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of reading. Once a means to an end, a way to identify ...

Start fires. But only metaphorically. Unless you are cold and it's a safe setting. In which case: start fires.

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

I blush so easily. Even when I'm not embarrassed, I blush. It's so embarrassing.

I have been attacked by crows and men with grotesque faces; I have been set on fire by the boy who almost threw me off ...

The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced ...

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career ...

Andy [Murray] is one of the premier workaholics. He's given himself a lot of opportunities through that.

Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless ...

A tendency for the male perspective to dominate responses to films, whether that's commissions or how a film is presented in the world. The market ...

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides where ...

Can't you ever stop joking?""No, why should I? Laughter is one of the two things that make life worthwhile. Aren't you going to ask what ...

It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics,

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

When I was with Clare and Maddie, I felt like I was home - or at least what I thought a home should feel like.

You know, men do nearly all die laughing, because they know death is very terrible, and a thing to be forgotten till after it has ...

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

I'm not a clotheshorse or a big shoes guy.

Rage or fear ... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy ...

The story thread suddenly dropped in a hopeless snarl, just as he was about to get it through the needle's eye of the first line.

VAMPIRES I see things you can't see WEREWOLVES I find things that hunt you FAERIES I am your protector SHAPESHIFTERS But even I can't protect ...

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

No matter what line of work you do, success cannot truly be achieved until you own who you are. The most offensive liability then becomes ...

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to ...

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. ...

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

Leo tried to remember what had happened. He was pretty sure he had defeated Gaia ...

You have to carry the fire."I don't know how to."Yes, you do."Is the fire real? The fire?"Yes it is."Where is it? I don't know where ...

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is ...

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate ...

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

I wander around and end up in Cruikshank's Orchard, sitting on a fern-patterned bench next to the girl of my dreams. She's wearing a T-shirt ...

When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.

World creation should be an effort of great and covetous love.

You must mark in these things obviously. It's the fact you want to emphasise, not the subjective impression to record. What's the fact? - red ...

What a mercy, I thought, that the crippled, the maimed, those whom Fate has cheated, at least in sleep have no knowledge of the shapeliness ...

I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.

He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. If he ever lay in a cradle, it seems as if he must have lain there ...

I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.

Her fear was something useless that only hampered her.

My wife Ciera and I can stand face-to-face in our kitchen and stare into each other's eyes and talk for three hours without noticing that ...

Writers are engineers of human souls.

It was here one brilliant November midnight that Edward wrote a formal letter to Violet and Geoffrey Ponting declaring his ambition to marry their daughter, ...

Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable ... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for ...

Despite this book, white people will still be able to enjoy Vespa scooters without comment and properly conjugate words without anyone being surprised.

It doesn't matter if you have a lot or a little money. It's what you do with it that determines its power.

Everyday is another chance to do something great.

Darling girl, take life by the balls and twist them.

Nepal will be a secular state - there is no other way.

The [sun and moon] provide us with different-appearing worlds, which in turn form our two different minds; the one that reasons and the one that ...

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful ...

I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.

Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.

There is hardly anything more fundamental to the life of a believer than repentance - hardly anything more life-giving, more liberating, more glorious. That's why ...

I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake.

I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I ...

What a hideous life he had chosen, how painful was the loneliness he endured because he didn't have the courage to trust someone again. To ...