Byner Quotes & Sayings

I've started a project called Planet Art. The purpose will be to remind people where I really believe we came from, which was a creative planet, and that everybody can be autonomous through their art. — Meredith Brooks

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation. — Arthur Miller

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive. — Mira Sorvino

How could I go back to earth, having kissed heaven? — C.D. Reiss

It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster. — Michael Chabon

Bad enough that getting turned on when he had nothing more than a bath towel to hide it would make the condition kind of hard to miss, but getting turned on in front of his ex-fiancee was akin to smearing honey on his junk and walking into grizzly territory. — Heidi Betts

That's how the Sukulowskis got out?" Captain Byner asked. "Yup." Joe lit a cigarette. "Where'd they end up?" Joe tossed his match in the ashtray. "You don't really want to know." Rico said, "Gentlemen, I agree with you. Freddy was a fucking asshole going after Montooth in the first place." Freddy, already aggrieved, looked even more dismayed. "You were." Rico looked Freddy in the eye and formed a circle with the thumb and index of his right hand. "Huge asshole. Size of a fucking paint can." He turned to the other men in the room. "But, gents, we can't let a nigger kill a white man. Even if it's a nigger we like, and I like Montooth Dix. I've broken bread with the man. But still. And we can't let a guy who's not in our thing kill someone who is. No matter what. Dion? Joe? You two taught — Dennis Lehane

They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before. — Anita Diamant

The best results come when people believe in and feel strongly about the music they are playing. Just as composers write for certain types of performers, performers are also looking for certain things. — Michael Hersch

To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all" - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart. — Frederick Buechner

Naked and alone come ye into this world and naked and alone ye shall depart. — Ken Consaul

Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to. — Margo Lanagan

Singular Touch.
With that singular touch of his precious warm hand,
His finger slowly skimmed her porcelain cheek.
As her eyes fell upon his delicate soul,
It was then he knew,
He had captured every single ounce of her being. — J.L. Thomas

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity. — John Mearsheimer

Here is how I take the measure of my progress in life: I imagine myself as I was, back there in — Ta-Nehisi Coates