Atypical Memorable Quotes & Sayings

Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand. — George Steiner

Open your mind a little, don't believe everything you hear, see or read, the world is so caught up in trying to avoid the topics that matter that you'll lose yourself trying to become like it. — Nikki Rowe

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church? — Arthur Judson

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills ... So my parents always struggled. — Patti Smith

Life has its insidious way of crawling its way back into your sphere and you're dumbed down again by so many distractions including work obligations, social niceties and mountains of clothes washing. — Josh Langley

I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing.
-Jing-mei — Amy Tan

I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that. — Ice Cube

What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City. — Steve Reich

Mortenson was merely selling what the public was eager to buy. — Jon Krakauer

Do not give w dogs what is holy, and do not throw your x pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. — Anonymous

Combining internal drive and determination with positive external support was key to my recovery. — Amy Rankin