David Vestal Quotes

The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I was desperate for him to hear me. What was my existence otherwise? I tried and tried to make a ripple in the world. To be there. ~ Shawn Vestal

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience. ~ Vestal McIntyre

I'm nobody's motivational speaker, but if I've learned anything it's this: Always try to fuck someone you think won't fuck you. Just try. Chances are decent that you're overestimating their taste or intelligence. ~ Shawn Vestal

FOR MOST OF MY LIFE I couldn't have found Idaho on a map. I had no picture of the place in my mind, nothing like a California beach or a Texas oil field. Potato trees, is what I thought on the drive out. Rows ~ Shawn Vestal

I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices. ~ Vestal McIntyre

Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common. ~ Vestal McIntyre

There may be something universal about idealizing the past, but I think it's taken to an absurd degree in New York, which is what I'm poking fun at. The hole-in-the-wall bars I went to in the 90s that smelled like sewage now enjoy legendary status, as if times were had there that could never be had anywhere else. ~ Vestal McIntyre

Oh, well. Just twist the first thing you can grab, as the High Priest said to the vestal virgin. ~ Terry Pratchett

Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal. ~ William Shakespeare

Sara knelt. She was becoming smaller, lighter, and then she was down among the insects, and the only thing in the world was the noise of them, the churn of their bodies upon one another, the clack of their black hulls, a heavenly vibration that resounded only because they were pushing in the same direction, and they were invincible. They crawled onto her legs and began eating her cotton skirt. She placed her hands down for them to crawl upon her, some of them swarming by and others stopping to chew at her clothing or hang from her skirt, and she was surrounded, feeling the scratch of their legs and the points of their antennae and their light husks. Her mind calmed, and she felt herself lifted into the air by the hand of God. ~ Shawn Vestal

Nature had given me a square jaw, a cleft chin, a dark mane, eyes that could bring a vestal virgin to her knees and a cock that could keep her there. ~ Michael Schiefelbein

They may seize
On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand
And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,
Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin. ~ William Shakespeare

And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders. ~ Thomas Hardy

The Hoff has taken over David Hasselhoff. David Hasselhoff really doesn't know who he is anymore. Everywhere I go, it's The Hoff. ~ David Hasselhoff

David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely. ~ David Lipsky

Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. - David Kekich ~ David Allen

Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation. ~ David Ignatius

David: Hello
David: Are you there
David: Hello
ELIXIR: Hello.
David: How are you?
ELIXIR: Hello.
David: Wrong.
ELIXIR: I'm fine.
ELIXIR: How are you?
David: I've been better.
David: Do you want to know why?
David: I have a story to tell you.
ELIXIR: I'm all ears.
David: Correct. ~ Liz Moore

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife. ~ David Ogilvy

No two people see things the same. ~ David Patneaude

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness. ~ David Bowie

Digression and digestion. It's what we do. ~ David Duchovny

Tomorrow belongs to those who hear it coming ~ David Bowie

Life is made up of dots ~ David Brier

Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today. ~ David Nicholls

Remove yourself, sir! ~ David McCullough

Zero Day was here. ~ David Baldacci

You can write 'little beast' if you want, but my name is David Ferrer. ~ David Ferrer

We see trees - they see only posts and beams. ~ David Kennett

I want this to be the sand that stays on my fingers. ~ David Levithan

David (David Foster Wallace) had a caffeine social gift: Her was charmingly, vividly, overwhelmingly awake - he acted on other people like a slug of coffee - so they're the five most sleepless days I every spent with anyone. ~ David Lipsky

-Question: "On a scale from one to ten how fierce are you?"- David: "You are just asking me this because I am gay ... What the fuck does that mean?" -David Levithan, at Teen Lit Con- ~ David Levithan

Number of children fathered got little enough to do with being a good daddy.' - Louisa Mae Cardinal ~ David Baldacci

All part of the service. ~ Peter David

Branding is the art of differentiation ~ David Brier

Lies erase. Lies are power. Power to be had by you. Truth is relative, no? Power defeats truth, paper, scissors. Are you faux real? ~ David David Katzman

David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals.
(on David Johnson) ~ David Platt

What's the hurry? From my experience, dead bodies don't get any deader. ~ David Harry

I'm scared David"
"That's good, because there's lots to be afraid of ~ David Wong

I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones ~ David Bowie

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield ~ David Nicholls

They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.
David Benioff; City of Thieves ~ David Benioff

Time doth make cowherds of us all. ~ David B. Lentz

From David Niven's autobiography, Bring on the Empty Horses. Director Mike Curtiz to David Niven & Errol Flynn: You lousy bums, you and your stinking language, you think I know fuck nothing, well let me tell you - I know FUCK ALL! ~ David Niven

I don't care how impossible it seems. ~ David Byrne

Don't be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God's commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win. ~ David B. Haight

The season of evil," I echoed. "Protect your soul. ~ David Almond

David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. ~ David Halberstam

What's gone is gone. ~ David Levithan

Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding. ~ David Brier

Running from horrors doesn't help. The only way to deal with them is to meet them head-on. ~ Peter David

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor. ~ David Gilmour

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring. ~ David Bowie

David knew we were meeting in the Kettle," said Genya," and he guessed about the master flue."
David frowned. "I don't guess. ~ Leigh Bardugo

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is global warming demonstrates that processing natural materials on an industrial scale is a suicidal practice. ~ David David Katzman

David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the crime that offends you most?
David Bowie: Seeing a man humble himself in his capacity as a worker to somebody else, and having to have that accepted as a given situation. ~ David Bowie

Michelangelo didn't show David triumphant, the way every other sculptor did. He showed David before he fought Goliath - when David believed he was doomed and went into battle anyway. ~ James Patterson

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are. ~ David Levithan

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving ~ David Levithan

The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree ... Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often. ~ David Foster Wallace

This is our fucking city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong.

David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox, April 21, 2013 ~ David Ortiz

Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year! ~ David Dweck

Be still and know that I am God
-Psalms 47:10 ~ David

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear. ~ David Foster Wallace

I think the important part is to not get caught up in worrying about whether something will stay, and instead enjoy it for the time it's here. ~ David Levithan

He looked a bit more confused by Stevie and David, but nodded politely. "I'm a watch ad," David said. "She's a hipster grandpa. Together, we solve crime. ~ Maureen Johnson

That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas. ~ David Ohle

I got a call from my mom today, she says, 'Well, David, I see you didn't get the 'Tonight Show' again,' ~ David Letterman

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it. ~ Peter David

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. ~ David Amram

Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel. ~ David Platt

David Foster Wallace: We sit around and bitch about how TV has ruined the audience for reading - when really all it's done is given us the really precious gift of making our job harder. ~ David Lipsky

And he goes round with a fat roll of dollar bills, and got this nice farm, and all them fancy machines, and man let his family starve.' - Louisa Mae Cardinal ~ David Baldacci

[...] The little everyday neglect of imagining other people well can add up to a lifetime of flawed, perverted vision, an expenditure of soul in a waste of emotionalism. ~ David Dark

I was not a doper, I told myself - I just injected myself to recover and needed pills to sleep. ~ David Millar

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Wonder if Stephen King's like us or like them..? ~ David Moody

I think they would like the songs better
if I left out the names, or changed
the pronouns. ~ David Levithan

David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then. ~ David Lipsky

Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death? ~ David Brier

We rarely do anything with on single motive. ~ Paul David Tripp

That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh. ~ David Sheff

Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy. ~ David Ault

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz. ~ David Bowie

Anyone who can be cool about his first visit to the Oval Office has lost so much body heat that rigor mortis is probably about to set in. ~ David Frum

Dreams aren't what you leave behind when morning comes.
They are the stuff that fill your every living moment. ~ David Cuschieri

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it. ~ David Ogilvy

And it was inconceivable that the God of War would not be able to be the victor in a little skirmish like that, when all the cards were already stacked in his favour.
What could Jupiter do if he took her by force & deflowered her? In Roman Mythology, Mars was the only God who had ever raped a Vestal Virgin, an event that led to the birth of Romulus & Remus & the founding of Rome.[MMT] ~ Nicholas Chong

...a mini-hearse. It had the practicality of a mini-van and the handy carrying capacity of a hearse combined. If you get annoyed with your kids at soccer practice, you can always kill them on the way home and take them directly to the cemetery. ~ David David Katzman

I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That's how I feel about myself. ~ David Hasselhoff

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them. ~ David Ogilvy

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21. ~ David Gilmour

Head for the moon. If you miss, you will still be among the stars ~ David Gandy

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty. ~ Peter David

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them? that it was a vain endeavor? ~ Henry David Thoreau

Irony tyrannizes us. All US irony is based on an implicit 'I don't really mean what I'm saying. ~ David Foster Wallace

I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or sensitive. ~ David Bedrick

David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched. ~ David Nicholls