Ameryst Quotes & Sayings

Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer any place in the world which is safe. One cannot live in perpetual fear, one has to be as prudent as possible, and get on with life. - A Severed Wasp — Madeleine L'Engle

I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went ... it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them. — Jude Morgan

I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step. — Jack White

To be a true success, you must prepare yourself for an ocassional failure to gain experience and wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days. — Rick Astley

The matter could in fact have been resolved quite simply if all those round the table had been equally intelligent. But in this life that is rarely given. — Antal Szerb

Suddenly the light came on at the back of her parents' house, flooding the yard. "Is there somebody out there? Amy, is that you?" her mother called. "No. Tell me this isn't happening." Quinn rested his forehead against hers. "Has she got a wiretap on you or something? I swear, she's like a walking hard-on detector. — Sarah Mayberry

I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz. — Kurt Vonnegut

Surrender to what is. let go of what was. have faith in what will be. — Sonia Ricotti

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history. — Henry Rollins