St. Vincent Quotes

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

You know, most girls sleep with a teddy bear or an extra pillow. But I gotta say, that's kinda hot.

Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.

Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.

Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.

Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did.

To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

You can't start a movement, but you can prepare for one

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

The sadness will last forever.

God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

And what are we doing if we are not doing God's Will?

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

. . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.

Next year we have to be even better. If we want to be a big club this has to be one of many.

I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.