Verve Quotes

“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Unwrap me with all the verve of a new gift...After all, it is not every day I have enough clothes on to be present...able...”
― Virginia Alison

“For some people history is a Beach or a Tower or a Graveyard. For me it was a giant primordial Toyshop with all its windows gloriously ablaze…It was my present for being alive.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

“Out beyond the rivers of verve lies the sea of languor. Those who swim in those rivers end up drowning in that sea.”
― Rajesh`

“As anyone's ratio of trials to triumph grows to a complex, incalculable thing, so does their verve and valor become an immeasurable impact and influence.”
― Connie Kerbs, Whatsoever Things: A Little Theme of Faith & Inspiration With Wings

“Why resist the Iona hypthesis? In part to play devil's advocate, but mostly because the wit, verve and apparent sponteneity - the daredevil quality of the Book of Kells is not in evidence in Iona. It is, however, abundantly present in Pictish sculpture, and thanks to new research we now know that Pictland has a monastic site that once rivalled Iona.”
― Victoria Whitworth, The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma