Victor LaValle Quotes

Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.

Victor LaValle

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• Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Long
  • Today
  • Energy

• One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Sea
  • Conditions
  • Ice

• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • True
  • Imagination

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Long
  • Space
  • Go

• I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Acting

• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Long
  • Brain
  • Memories

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Love
  • Words

• If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Song
  • Tears
  • Frank Sinatra

• When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Good
  • True
  • Look

• I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Long
  • Couple
  • Relationships

• Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Plan
  • Doctor

• Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • True
  • Man
  • Religious

• iphone therefore I am.

  

  Jason Silva

• Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• The abolition of private property is, doubtless, the shortest and most significant way to characterize the revolution in the whole social order which has been made necessary by the development of industry – and for this reason it is rightly advanced by communists as their main demand.

  

  Friedrich Engels
  • Revolution

• A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Future

• Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • True
  • Words