Beyond Heaving Bosoms Quotes & Sayings

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours. — Pete Townshend

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate. — William James

In solitude we don't reject the world but have the space to think our thoughts. — Sherry Turkle

Everybody who plays me plays me so hard because they always want to beat me. — Serena Williams

To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time ... To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer. — Richard Patrick

The sands are the children's great resort. They cluster there, like ants: so busy burying their particular friends, and making castles with infinite labour which the next tide overthrows, that it is curious to consider how their play, to the music of the sea, foreshadows the realities of their after lives. — Charles Dickens

There was a letter, tucked among the pictures. It was addressed to Santa Claus and written in blue crayon. The jerky letters danced across the page. He wanted a bike, he said, or a puppy, and promised to be good. It was signed, and he had added his age. Four.
I do not know why, but as I read it, my world seemed to collapse. Grief exploded in my chest like a grenade. I had been feeling calm - not happy, not even resigned, but calm - and that serenity vanished, as if vaporized. Beneath it, I was raw. — S.J. Watson