Askings Quotes & Sayings

I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. It's not the diva speaking. It's the artist who knows how it has to be done. — Anna Netrebko

When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis. — Priscilla Presley

Nowness is the sense that we are attuned to what is happening. The past is fiction and the future is a dream, and we are just living on the edge of a razor blade. — Chogyam Trungpa

He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow."
It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. — Victor Hugo

Vodka is kind of a hobby. — Betty White

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence. — Dennis Kucinich

He was the toast to her butter. — Nicholas Sparks

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates. — Kenneth Arrow

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read. — Matt Haig