Vein Quotes - page 4

There is nearly always a chthonic link. The object-imbued-with-numinous-power tends to be of mineral origin: gold, perhaps mined from a special vein, or a jewel of extraordinary rarity, or a sword forged from a shooting star. I am merely describing pulp. But the vast popularity...attests to the power of these motifs to seize the reader's attention, down at the level of the reptilian brain, even as the cerebrum is getting sick. (Neal Stephenson)
The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue. View quote
Thomas Gray
You know well enough what I mean by youth and age;-something in the soul, which has no more to do with the color of the hair than the vein of gold in a rock has to do with the grass a thousand feet above it. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power. View quote
Charles Lamb
I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money. View quote
Ian MacKaye
In 2000 Fiji experienced the greatest crisis in its contemporary history ... Fiji came close to complete collapse and anarchy; some form of civil war was a real possibility. This would not only have pitted Fijians against Indians but Fijians against Fijians, and Province against Province. But the country did not fall. It stepped back from the brink. It drew on its inner strength and a vein of tolerance and restraint and began the task of remaking Fiji. View quote
Laisenia Qarase
In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually. View quote
Victor Hugo
O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And heightens ease with grace. View quote
James Thomson (poet)
Fierce boils in every vein Indignant shame and passion blind, The tempest of the lover's mind, The soldier's high disdain. View quote
John Conington
I am not in the giving vein today. (William Shakespeare)
I shall be thy name in Christ as I emerge through these walls in vein. View quote
Elizabeth I of England
People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature. View quote
Roy Blount
There is, I believe, a great deal to be learned from faith traditions – from the ordinary people who practice them today; from their sacred texts and writings and artefacts; and from their histories. Faith traditions present a rich and diverse vein of human experience, and I am convinced that - as with other humanities - a serious interest in them is a cultural education in itself. View quote
Yakoub Islam
Last week I was in Virginia. Grayson County," Kihn said. "I interviewed a sixteen-year-old girl who'd been assaulted 'bya bar hade.'" "A what?" "A bear head. The severed head of a bear. This bar hade, see, was floating around on its own little flying saucer...Now that is the...straight goods from the mass unconscious. That little girl is a witch. There's just no place for her to function in this society. She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been brought up on 'The Bionic Man' and all those Star Trek reruns. She is clued into the main vein. View quote
William Gibson
I particularly enjoy working in the fantasy-science-fiction vein. No other category can offer so much scope to a writer. The field can, and does, embrace everything from wildly romantic adventure to satire and social-commentary techniques and approaches. View quote
Robert Sheckley
I'm ready to kill people, I'm sick of this. Not literally. The point is I'm getting sick of this crap. Let's just give all our kids to the child molesters, goddammit! Excuse me. You know, I'm not saying Lord's name in vain, I want these people damned to hell! I'm literally praying, God, damn them to Hell! That's not the Lord's name in vain! I mean that! I don't take God in vain [sic] but we ought to have a prayer called the Goddamnit Prayer! God damn them to hell, please! You think Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes, when he realizes this is Earth and all his family died 10,000 years before and he's come back through a wormhole, and everybody he knows is dead and he's saying, God damn them to Hell! You bastards! You blew it all up! God damn you! He's not taking lords name in vein! He's saying God damn them! God damn them! God damn them! God fucking damn them to Hell! View quote
Alex Jones
Opposite to Bellagio is the Fiumelatte, which falls from over 100 meters from the source where it is born, plumb over the lake, with inestimable clamor and noise. This vein of water pours only in August and September. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci