Brian Slagel Quotes & Sayings

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married. — Cicely Tyson

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise. — Dmitri Shostakovich

She could not help knowing it, the torch of her beauty; she carried it erect into any room that she entered; and after all, veil it as she might, and shrink from the monotony of bearing that it imposed on her, her beauty was apparent. — Virginia Woolf

I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life, then good would come to you. The harder you work, the luckier you get. I've come to believe that it's the smarter you work, the better. — Ken Blanchard

beneath the fragile and very human veneer of the organized churches of the world, there lies a truth so real and so pristine that all of man's concocted philosophical posings tumble into ruin beside it. — C.S. Lewis

Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge.
A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older.
This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber. — Juliet Marillier

That's all any of us can do, I suppose. We'll pick our side, and we'll fight as well as we can. — Kate Sherwood

While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it" — Jim Gaffigan

You can't always enjoy writing. But you can enjoy having written. — James Runcie

Creating music to fit the marketplace, so that music can be heard? If ever I thought that I even came close to catering to the marketplace, or designing my productions and my music to cater to what is currently fashionable, I would sell shoes for a living. For me, the marketplace can rot in hell. I will do music for the love of music and for the love of people who listen to music, and absolutely nothing else will drive me. — Daniel Lanois

There's no disappointment like getting what you've always wanted ... — Joe Abercrombie

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future. — Jurgen Moltmann

Open your wings and let your dreams fly for every thought counts. — Debatrayee Banerjee