All Quotes

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
‐‐ Edmund Waller

VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
‐‐ Eddie Trunk

VH1 does its little '80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes.
‐‐ Debbi Peterson

'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.
‐‐ David Hare

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.
‐‐ Sumner Redstone

Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.
‐‐ Cynthia Payne

Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.
‐‐ Chrysippus

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
‐‐ Daniel Defoe

Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.
‐‐ Chrysippus

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
‐‐ Finley Peter Dunne

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
‐‐ Ben Jonson

Vice President Biden is the real deal. He'll give it to you straight. He communicates in a way that I think connects with people at a real level.
‐‐ Michael Nutter

Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial social issue. It is difficult not to suspect that Biden's pronouncement aimed to give the president some political cover.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.
‐‐ Helen Thomas

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!
‐‐ Geraldine Ferraro

Vice President Joe Biden believes that illegal immigrants are citizens. Obama believes that some Americans who join Islamist groups are citizens, while others are not. Who is an American? Whomever the executive branch deems an American. Who isn't? It depends on whether Obama ate his Wheaties or not.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses.
‐‐ Susan Estrich

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
‐‐ James Harrington

'Viceroy' is the first British film about the Raj and the transfer of power from Britain to India made by a British Indian director. It is a British film made from an Indian perspective.
‐‐ Gurinder Chadha

Vices are often habits rather than passions.
‐‐ Antoine Rivarol

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.
‐‐ Anna Nicole Smith

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
‐‐ Knute Nelson

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
‐‐ Andrew Vachss

Victims always feel alone and helpless.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
‐‐ Tacitus

Victor Cruz just got his deal with Givenchy - amazing. I was so excited for him. That was amazing. So I think there are great opportunities for a lot of athletes out there.
‐‐ Colin Kaepernick

Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.
‐‐ Esther Williams

Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.
‐‐ Miriam Schapiro

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
‐‐ Mickey Spillane

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
‐‐ Elmer Bernstein

Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community.
‐‐ Denis Napthine

'Victoria Para Chino,' my 2nd-year film at NYU, gave birth to 'Sin Nombre.'
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

Victoria's Secret is like a big family.
‐‐ Candice Swanepoel

Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.
‐‐ Andy Gibb

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'
‐‐ Naomi Wolf

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Victorian racehorse owners frequently named their horses after murderers. That was so astonishing. Can you imagine the equivalent today, with a horse named, say, Boston Strangler, running in the Kentucky Derby? This was a new discovery. The Victorians didn't think it was odd, so no one ever mentioned it particularly.
‐‐ Judith Flanders

Victorian theorists competed to identify how many biologically differentiated races lived on Earth and proposed inherent characteristics for them, formulated explanations for these presumed variations in humanity.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
‐‐ Charles Palliser