Art Helps You Stay Sane Quotes & Sayings

I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers. — Jonny Greenwood

The tone and tendency of liberalism ... is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress. — Benjamin Disraeli

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of their drowning children. — Joe Queenan

I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I'm going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who's going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen. — Chris Christie

Love is an ocean,
kindness is a river,
and compassion is a stream. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I liked the exoticism his travels gave him, the unknownness. He had blown in with the soft breezes of a wider world, and it was weirdly seductive. — Jojo Moyes

A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one. — Frank D. Gilroy

I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn't you want to keep it? — Erin Morgenstern