Babushki Starushki Quotes & Sayings

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August ... — Denise Levertov

What will you do?"
"Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie."
"What are you going to call it?"
"Hollywood."
"Hollywood?"
"Yes ... — Charles Bukowski

I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave. — Chiune Sugihara

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead. — Cecil Frances Alexander

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough. — Sunny Murray

I'm tired of everyone deciding what's for my own good! — Libba Bray

She had been making for Riverrun for years, it seemed, without ever getting there. — George R R Martin

That's when I gave up pinball. When the times comes, everybody gives up pinball. Nothing more to it. — Haruki Murakami

I like to think of myself as a free spirit. I've never married. I'm not conventional in that way. But I do like romance. I've been fortunate enough that I've had great love, and I've dated remarkable men in my life. I'm very thankful for all of that. — Patricia Clarkson

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had. — Lynda Barry

Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like 'we must live the life we have. We must soldier on. — Ruth Ozeki