538 Latest Quotes & Sayings

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' — Alison Krauss

When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By the end of it, I was a completely different person. It was literally a requiem mass for my former self. I was about 12 or 13. The Requiem just totally hooked into what I was going through emotionally - discovering my sexuality right at the time when AIDS was devastating my community and dealing with intense parental situations. — Rufus Wainwright

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life. — Edwin Louis Cole

I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion! Soon I'll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it's a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship. — Max Barry

The person who have a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image. — Bob Proctor

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too. — Martin Buber

Washing dishes is the great equalizer. It solves many a dispute. — Jaci Burton

To be content does not mean that you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come. — Tony Gaskins

The Lord and His Church have always encouraged education to increase our ability to serve Him and our Heavenly Father's chlidren. For each of us, whatever our talents, He has service for us to give. And to do it well always involves learning, not once or for a limited time, but continually. — Henry B. Eyring

It is only when you suffer that you really understand. — Jules Verne

I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.' — Josephine Baker

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars. — Russell Lynes

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people. — Marc Andreessen

Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right.
Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong. — Roy Bennett

We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to extinguish himself in God or Nirvana - analogous perhaps to the tendency among artists to obliterate themselves with alcohol or opiates. But if we value our participation in a shared reality in which it makes sense to make sense, then such self-abnegation would deny a central element of our humanity: the need to speak and act, to share our experience with others. — Stephen Batchelor