Quotes of: Vernon Keyword

I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.

Vernon God Little

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Nancy Friday

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

Elliot Perlman

At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

Hannah Storm

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

John Barrowman

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

Mark Carwardine

Richard Vernon: Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.

The Breakfast Club

Principal Richard Vernon: The next time I have to come in here I'm crackin' skulls.

The Breakfast Club

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

Greg Lynn

Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.

Ricky Jay

Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Dean Vernon Wormer: You better tell Mr. Stratton and Mr. Schoenstein exactly what I am about to tell you now.

Animal House

John Bender: [to Vernon] Keep your fuckin' hands off me! I'd expect better manners from you, Dick.

The Breakfast Club

Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be 'a Benedict Arnold' is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who c...

Arthur L. Herman

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

Neil Innes

My kitchen has a wood-burning oven, a large worktable, and windows all around, including one above the sink. I think whoever is washing the dishes needs to have a lot of beauty around.

Alice Waters

You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later - and vice versa.

Lisa Randall

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

Berkeley Breathed

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

Judith Krantz