Balakanda Quotes & Sayings

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced. — Mike Mills

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Your local dreams contain global elements; think global. On no account should you settle with a crowd when God has called you for multitudes! Dare to dream big! — Israelmore Ayivor

Outside the window, broken and abandoned husks dotted the landscape, set against the gray, dishwater sky. Scarred and beaten, the perfect metaphor for the people who lived within its forgotten neighborhoods, Detroit was like an abused kid, just waiting for the day someone would come along and give a fuck about it. The third world city of America. — Keri Lake

While editing "Done in One":
FOCUS or F*** US! 08-15-2014 — Jan Thomas

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance. — W. H. Auden

Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners. — Toks Olagundoye

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled. — Patrick Kavanagh

Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories, and feel that there are not enough of them. So, after all that you have done for me, the least that I can do for you is to write you one. — A.A. Milne

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success. — George Augustus Henry Sala

It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose. — Jeanette Winterson

Thanks to Sam, I was immortal. — Jodi Meadows

To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us. — David Lloyd-Jones

At times, I want to explode like a bomb or give in to my animalistic instincts like the others. But my father raised me better. He'd — Abi Ketner