Obscure Vine Quotes

Lurk A Novel by Adam Vine ~ Adam Vine

Is there any sadder sight than a burnt out library? ~ Barbara Vine

Mark Twain had written somewhere: We are all mad at night. ~ Barbara Vine

He destabilized every ounce of her being with his presence alone. ~ April Vine

Even in the most horrendous situations there is always something to smile about. ~ Stella Vine

This had been her fantasy for ages. Bound, bruised, and loved by Stephen. ~ April Vine

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure. ~ Donald Barthelme

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I think life's too long to do anything that we know is wrong before we begin. ~ Barbara Vine

I met this gangster who pulls up people's pants. Name's Wedgie Kray. ~ Tim Vine

I look all-woman on the outside, but inside I'm empty. Dead. A vast space of nothingness. ~ Cindy Vine

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet. ~ Tim Vine

Time, the best of all doctors, though it kills you in the end, had done more than therapy could. ~ Barbara Vine

Lewis would have agreed with Oscar Wilde that our past is what we are. We cannot rid ourselves of it. ~ Barbara Vine

Open your heart to others. Never fear journeying long and far. Live with truth and humility." And ~ Beatrice Vine

Books are my one luxury. ~ Stella Vine

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music. ~ Moby

Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out. ~ Tim Vine

Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed. ~ Barbara Vine

You see what you want to see, and it might not be the same as someone else. ~ Cindy Vine

Sometimes I think I'm still a child trapped in a woman's body. ~ Cindy Vine

I phoned the local ramblers club today and this bloke just went on and on. ~ Tim Vine

Who knows why our kids do what they do? All we can do is just love them." - Fenella ~ Cindy Vine

I like to watch old films. Meet Me in St Louis, Cul-de-Sac and Buffalo 66 are some of my favourites. ~ Stella Vine

Empty minds are abhorred by thought as vacuums are by nature. ~ Barbara Vine

Obscure, like muddy waters. ~ Laozi

You do not put off things because they threaten you, because you are afraid; It was a rule of life. ~ Barbara Vine

Wounds do eventually heal after a fashion, even emotional ones. What seems bad one day, is not quite as bad a year from now. ~ Cindy Vine

I have perfected the art of the fake smile. Inside your heart may be bruised and black, but outwardly you look bright and happy. ~ Cindy Vine

Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy. ~ Nash Grier

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it. ~ Vine Deloria Jr.

My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped. ~ Tim Vine

I'm so lazy I've got a smoke alarm with a snooze button. ~ Tim Vine

Games were being played, that was all, and games of which he was largely ignorant and wished to remain so. ~ Barbara Vine

Ive decided to sell my Hoover ... well, it was just collecting dust. ~ Tim Vine

I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out. ~ Maisie Williams

I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one. ~ Tim Vine

So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R. ~ Tim Vine

I love acting, but it's all just a bonus. ~ Tim Vine

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.] ~ Horace

God and other artists are always a little obscure ... ~ Oscar Wilde

I strive to be brief, and become obscure. ~ Horace

Nobody can help me, those are my secrets, scarring my soul just as surely as that razor blade scarred my thighs all those years ago. ~ Cindy Vine

I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house. ~ Tim Vine

I bought some Armageddon cheese today, and it said on the packet 'Best Before End ... ' ~ Tim Vine

I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again. ~ Tim Vine

If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again. ~ Maisie Williams

Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas. ~ Horace Gray

I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy. ~ Tim Vine

Without me, without me,
Everyday's misery.
But with me - am I wrong?
No night is too long! ~ Barbara Vine

Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine. ~ Maisie Williams

They couldn't understand why he chose patience over hauling her ass straight over to his home and collaring her, since he was clearly in love with her. ~ April Vine

One-armed butlers, they can take it but they can't dish it out ~ Tim Vine

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. ~ Hugh Kingsmill

We must continually abide in the vine, so that we can keep bearing lasting fruits ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me." ~ Tim Vine

Isak Dinesen said that life is no more than a process for turning healthy young puppies into mangy old dogs and man but an exquisite instrument for converting the red wine of Shiraz into urine. ~ Barbara Vine

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor. ~ Tim Vine

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign. ~ Vine Deloria Jr.

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure? ~ Samuel Beckett

I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny. ~ Maisie Williams

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. ~ Vine Deloria Jr.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. ~ Vine Deloria Jr.

Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you're making things on your own. ~ Gillian Jacobs

I like what's obscure. ~ Steven Klein

When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely" ... It's a basic skill isn't it ... ~ Tim Vine

How could she truly appreciate the gentleness of Stephen's touch if she didn't know the extent of how rough he could be with her? ~ April Vine

Village life is like an ivy vine climbing a great oak. You cut off the vine at the root, and all the way up the tree, the leaves wither. We're all connected." For ~ Julie Klassen

I think that being on my knees between your legs is the right place for me, Sir.
And what might you do for me, Rosie, while you are down there? ~ Rachel De Vine

You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle. ~ Tim Vine

Things are more beautiful when they're obscure. ~ Veda Hille

'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback. ~ S.E. Hinton

Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there. ~ Vine Deloria Jr.

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. ~ Tim Vine

So I went in to a pet shop. I said, "Can I buy a goldfish?" The guy said, "Do you want an aquarium?" I said, "I don't care what star sign it is." ~ Tim Vine

So I told my mum that I'd opened a theatre. She said, "Are you having me on?" I said, "Well I'll give you an audition, but I'm not promising you anything." ~ Tim Vine

Why do you always wear black?"
She delighted me with her answer, the correct, the only, answer. "I'm in mourning for my life. I'm unhappy. ~ Barbara Vine

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines. ~ David Ogilvy

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. ~ Barbara Pym

I have only dark, obscure words of love - but it's these that broke your heart ~ John J. Geddes

The function of a great library is to store obscure books. ~ Nicholson Baker

When the situation is obscure, attack ~ Heinz Guderian

He wanted her to kneel at his feet. He wanted to carry her on his shoulders. His girl. His property. ~ April Vine

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves. ~ Yotam Ottolenghi

So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' ~ Tim Vine

Your kids never really leave do they? They might live elsewhere, sometimes not even on the same continent, but Mum is always first port of call when there's trouble. Parenting is a lifetime commitment. ~ Cindy Vine

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure. ~ Oscar Wilde

These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating ~ Vine Deloria Jr.

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.' ~ Tim Vine

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. ~ Tim Vine

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. ~ Horace

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' ~ Tim Vine

I strongly doubt that American Christianity has the foresight or flexibility to embark on new paths of action. It has always been torn between being good and being real and generally chosen to be good. ~ Vine Deloria Jr.

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted! ~ Gautama Buddha

A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. ~ Diogenes Laertius

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me. ~ Michael Bennet

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure. ~ John Amos Comenius

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. ~ Muriel Rukeyser