Aa Milne Blustery Day Quotes & Sayings

Bothers me when I have to invent the wheel again and again and again, because some people won't fit in the current one. — Kambiz Shabankareh

There is no place in the service of worship where vanity and bad taste can so intrude as in the singing. There is, first, the improvised second part which one hears almost everywhere. It attempts to give the necessary background, the missing fullness to the soaring unison tone, and thus kills both the words and the tone. There is the bass or the alto who must call everybody's attention to his astonishing range and therefore sings every hymn an octave lower. There is the solo voice that goes swaggering, swelling, blaring and tremulant from a full chest and drowns out everything else to the glory of its own fine organ. There are the less dangerous foes of congregational singing, the 'unmusical' who cannot sing, of whom there are far fewer than we are led to believe, and finally, there are often those also who because of some mood will not join in the singing and thus disturb the fellowship. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A fair portion of my anger had returned, but alongside it ran the memory of those few seconds on the yoga mat in the death pose. I felt as if I had been shown a kind of essential secret, something so subtle and quiet and small(and yet so important)that I could gone my entire adult life and never even imagined such a thing existed. — Roland Merullo

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. — Karl Kraus

...everything that is not literature is life. — Jose Saramago

I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into. — Leon Panetta

How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander. — Jane Austen

I did not work out while I was pregnant. I felt like I was having symptoms of a heart attack every time I worked out, so I enjoyed eating like a third grader and gained 55 pounds! — Diane Farr

I've been so busy staying alive I never thought of what this must be like for my parents. — Andy Weir

He'd seen what became of men who sacrificed their hearts' desires for security. — Ginn Hale