Boemerang Quotes & Sayings

When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets. — Scott Walker

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves. — James Welch

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. — Lucille Ball

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest. — George Eliot

Some of my favorite contemporary Montana writers and their books include Annick Smith's Homestead, a memoir of her experiences, along with her husband and four children, homesteading in the Blackfoot Valley on 163 acres in the 1960s; Deirdre — Nancy Pearl

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game. — George H. W. Bush

His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularized by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy. — James Joyce

I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. — Ilona Andrews

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy. — Thomas Browne

Let me ask you, do you love your freedom that you have here in America? Well, so do I. — Sarah Palin

It is no surprise that the only woman in antiquity who could be the subject of a full-length biography is Cleopatra. Yet, unlike Alexander, whom she rivals as the theme of romance and legend, Cleopatra is known to us through overwhelmingly hostile sources. The reward of the 'good' woman in Rome was likely to be praise in stereotyped phrases; in Athens she won oblivion. — Sarah B. Pomeroy

The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female. — Laozi

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful. — Rei Kawakubo

I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me ... My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win spectacularly ... Ever since I was 12 years old, I was groomed to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I've been prepared to handle the pressure, the dealing with the press, everything. — Mike Tyson