Bad Filks Quotes & Sayings

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. — Sarah Vowell

I will know that only those with inferior ability can always be at their best, and I am not inferior. There will be days when I must constantly struggle against forces which would tear me down. Those such as despair and sadness are simple to recognize but there are others which approach with a smile and the hand of friendship and they can also destroy me. Against them, too, I must never relinquish control - — Og Mandino

I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that. — Madonna Ciccone

I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track. — Matt Cohen

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language — Peter Porter

Oberon:She's a very clever girl, the kind you dont' take home to Ogma. — Kevin Hearne

The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter at least one murder in our own lives: our own. It is our fate. We all live a murder mystery of which we are the victim. — Yann Martel

All a guy can do is die once. The big difference is whether he dies clean - or dirty ... ("I'm Dangerous Tonight") — Cornell Woolrich

I know these trees by their feel and their scent. I don't have to turn on my light to know them. The wind blows through the trees. The leaves and needles shake. Almost I feel the wind is sweeping through me as well. — Ned Hayes

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life. — Bill Nighy

Learning is a consequence of thinking. — David Perkins

We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice. — Pauline Collins

And, naturally, the city caught the contagious air of entre - the working girls, poor ugly souls, wrapping soap in the factories and showing finery in the big stores, dreamed that perhaps in the spectacular excitement of this winter they might obtain for themselves the coveted male - as in a muddled carnival crowd an inefficient pickpocket may consider his chances increased. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them. — Harold Laski

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman. — Petronius

If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. Your keynote can be ascertained by listening to some good music. When the note is played it will send a thrill right through you. — Vera Stanley Alder