Allie Nelson Quotes & Sayings

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go. — Chris Isaak

To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth. — William Shakespeare

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun. — Jean Giraudoux

The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say — Leonard Cohen

You're right, Margaret, absolutely right. Things have changed a lot, even since I've been here. It's a different place now. Better in some ways, worse in others."
"Better!" she echoed, scornfully. — Jonathan Coe

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
[Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.] — George Herbert

O, wherever men of my sort used to go, long ago. Wandering on paths that other men have not seen. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain. — Susanna Clarke

Never in my career have I got the support for what I'm doing, any more than I have on Fringe. — J.H. Wyman

The reason women don't vote for Republicans is not that they haven't had the impact of Republican policies spelled out in simple enough terms for them. It's because they understand Republican policies perfectly well. Women vote against Republicans because they know the impact Republican policies have on their lives. — Renee Ellmers

What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death. — William James

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. — Muhammad Yunus

Solitude is one of our great superpowers ... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions. — Susan Cain

When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them. Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. In which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion. Is that so hard? — Marcus Aurelius

I want my pockets to be like a TARDIS, or Mary Poppins's carpetbag. — Jenny Lawson

I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it. — Derek Jacobi