Abarcas Quotes & Sayings

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform. — Dan Deacon

Kindness is my prayer. Humanity is my abode. — Debasish Mridha

The distance between Mooreland in 1965 and a city like San Francisco in 1965 is roughly equivalent to the distance starlight must travel before we look up casually from a cornfield and see it. — Haven Kimmel

Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away. — Carole King

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it. — Gary Johnson

It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit ... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be. — Olaf Stapledon

Dimitri always left my heart full of pain and longing, but I still wanted Adrian in my life. — Richelle Mead

We have been seduced by sound bites. It is difficult to imagine how we are going to have an intelligent conversation around complex theopolitical issues as long as the average news consumer in America is willing to be sound-bite driven. We face a sorry state of affairs in our culture when few people seem willing to take the time for nuanced discussion on the complicated challenges we face. Politicians of all parties have been willing to foster this sound-bite mentality because it has worked for them. Most Americans work hard and are faced with too little time and too many distractions to study the issues well enough to make an informed judgment on them. As long as news consumers are willing to be manipulated by sound bites and are unwilling to commit the time to understand the complexities, we will continue to see artificial and simplistic distinctions drive too much of our conversation, resulting in divisions and disagreements that rarely get at the substantive issues. — Charles E. Gutenson

Malicious or not, strong leaders always attract others. — Richelle Mead

Never spend any of your hard-earned money on clothes and accessories. You need to get yourself a mayyin to buy all that for you. — John Berendt

I enjoy my life very much. — Joe Nichols

Don't wait for a reason to feel the joy. Life is for joy. — Debasish Mridha