Auger Quotes & Sayings

Ig had always liked to listen to his father, to watch him while he played. It was almost wrong to say his father played. It often seemed the other way around: that the horn was playing him. The way his cheeks swole out, then caved in as if he were being inhaled into it, the way the golden keys seemed to grab his fingers like little magnets snatching at iron filings, causing them to leap and dance in unexpected, startling fits. The way he shut his eyes and bent his head and twisted back and forth at the hips, as if his torso were in auger, screwing its way deeper and deeper into the centre of his being, pulling the music up from somewhere in the pit of his belly. — Joe Hill

Let go of what was and embrace what to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It was her wedding dress and it had a flare-out bottom, and they had laid her head to foot in it so the dress could spread out, and they had made her a veil out of a mosquito bar so the auger holes in her face wouldn't show. — William Faulkner

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only. — Lyndon B. Johnson

One must command from each what each can preform. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If Helene was with child, either Basile Auger had astonishing ejaculatory capabilities, impregnating her from halfway around the world, or she'd lain with another man. — Meljean Brook

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado. — Louisa May Alcott

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi

Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few days afterward I would find the pages in their place again. But often I no longer recognize my manuscripts, as if I had forgotten what I had written, or as if overnight I were so changed that no longer recognized myself in the self of yesterday. — Italo Calvino

Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future. — Eddie Harris

Maybe if she saw Jag again... maybe that would wake her up. But if she sees him and remembers, I'm nobody. In more than ways than one. — Elana Johnson

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved. — Aristotle.

Stop shouting, "What if?" and just take a leap of faith. — Haemin Sunim

In her face I saw what I'd never fully admitted to myself- the humiliatingly pathetic hopelessness of my love. — Eli Easton

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem. — Donald Sutherland

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination. — Louis Kronenberger

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us. — Mother Teresa

Auger-eyed woman's small stout form, outlining her — Richard Flanagan