Bessy Gatto Quotes & Sayings

Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members of the community to participate in the decisions and institutions that shape their lives must be continually debated, safeguarded, and preserved at all costs. — Henry Giroux

Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard. — Johnny Carson

I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling. — Jim Dale

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns. — Stephen Sondheim

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not. — Nick Lowe

All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid. — Desmond Tutu

Yet if he lost that desire, who would he be ? What would be in his heart then, if she were gone from it ? — Orson Scott Card

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have. — Laura Linney

I am the Reverend, the note said in a spidery scrawl. Would you like to join my flock of the Hushed? — Tim Lebbon

Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly. — Robert Jordan

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body. — John Henry Newman

You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes. — Cass Elliot