Ursula Vernon Quotes

I don't always burn my bridges, but when I do, I like there to be no survivors.

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• You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • You
  • Know
  • Mark

• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Sleep is the best meditation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • America
  • Balance

• Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Interesting
  • Universe
  • Dark

• It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Long
  • Heart

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Start
  • Word

• Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men

• I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

  

  Linus Pauling
  • World

• I am persuaded, therefore, that the Maryland procedure is virtually constitutional. Since it is not, however, actually constitutional, I would affirm the judgment of the Maryland Court of Appeals reversing the judgment of conviction.

  

  Antonin Scalia

• My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • World
  • Reading
  • Value

• When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • World

• I love taking challenges, as my name Leander means 'lion's heart.'

  

  Leander Paes
  • Heart
  • Lion

• My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Parents

• Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

  

  Petrarch
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Ends

• There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Mind
  • School
  • Painting

• I don't always burn my bridges, but when I do, I like there to be no survivors.

  

  Ursula Vernon