Bagpipers Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of activism and art, or at least of mine, is to make a world in which people are producers of meaning, not consumers, and — Rebecca Solnit

Memory in these incomparable streets, in mosaics of pain and sweetness, was clear to me now, a unity at last. I remembered small and unimportant things from the past: the whispers of roommates during thunderstorms, the smell of brass polish on my fingertips, the first swim at Folly Beach in April, lightning over the Atlantic, shelling oysters at Bowen's Island during a rare Carolina snowstorm, pigeons strutting across the graveyard at St. Philip's, lawyers moving out of their offices to lunch on Broad Street, the darkness of reveille on cold winter mornings, regattas, the flash of bagpipers' tartans passing in review, blue herons on the marshes, the pressure of the chinstrap on my shako, brotherhood, shad roe at Henry's, camellias floating above water in a porcelain bowl, the scowl of Mark Santoro, and brotherhood again. — Pat Conroy

I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot," Nellie said. "But bagpipers are pretty much my limit. — Larry McMurtry

People like Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and Pamela Anderson have done Playboy, and look at their careers! — Danielle O'Hara

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time. — Deepak Chopra

Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would. — Judi Dench

You know that person on your left shoulder who tells you that you can't do it or that you're not good enough? Tell that person to GET LOST! — Dawn M. Plass

I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get. — Jack Nicholson

Most of what a man is has been written by the time his beard starts to prickle. A babe is made of maybes. There are few crimes worse than the ending of something before its time. — Mark Lawrence

The cage of circumstances suddenly did not feel so confined. It felt less lonely knowing we both have had our wings clipped. — Elise Icten

We spend our lives asking the question, 'What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?' But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do. — Elizabeth Grace Saunders