| Author | Quote |
Topic |
|---|
| Valente, Benita | "Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it. " | Art |
| Valentine, Alan | "Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. " | Science |
| Valery, Paul | "Love is being stupid together. " | Love |
| Valery, Paul | "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. " | Science |
| Valery, Paul | "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. " | Religion |
| Valery, Paul | "A poem is never finished, only abandoned. " | Poetry |
| Valery, Paul | "An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. " | Art |
| Valery, Paul | "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. " | Dream |
| Van Buren, Abigail | "If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. " | Experience |
| Vanderbilt, Cornelius | "If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. " | Education |
| Varese, Varese | "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. " | Art |
| Vaughan, Bill | "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. " | Society |
| Vaughan, Bill | "Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. " | Society |
| Vaughn, Dr. Cecil | "There's a greater law than the FDA, and that is an obligation of a doctor to try to do anything he can to save a life when he thinks that there's a chance. " | Science |
| Vidal, Gore | "For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages? " | Art |
| Vidal, Gore | "The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. " | Government |
| Vinci, Leonardo da | "Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. " | Art |
| Viorst, Judith | "Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. " | Love |
| Viorst, Judith | "Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. " | Love |
| Volcker, Paul A. | "What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life. " | Business |
| Voltaire, | "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. " | War |
| Voltaire, | "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. " | Love |
| Voltaire, | "It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. " | Patriotism |
| Voltaire, | "Common sense is not so common. " | Intelligence |
| von Goethe, Johann | "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. " | Dream |
| Vorsteveld, Lydia | "Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together! " | Business |
