Cadell Quotes & Sayings

The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to. — Scott Walker

Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake. — Gordon Lightfoot

To ask who we are represents a primary reflex in human consciousness. Every person seeks to understand him or herself and reach a verifiable and cohesive image of his or her own identity. — Kilroy J. Oldster

You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman. — Elizabeth Cadell

It was terrible if you looked at things the way they could have been, but if you concentrated on what there was, it didn't look too bad. — Elizabeth Cadell

Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. — Montesquieu

She agreed with everything that was planned for her, and made her own arrangements later, for she had discovered that the easiest way through life was to set out obediently upon the appointed path and then slip away down a side turning. — Elizabeth Cadell

And while she hadn't been looking for a knight, she hadn't been searching out ogres, either. — Nora Roberts

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]. — Philippe Starck

Unmoor the boat, we could go ... downriver ...
History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities surface towards us and then sink away and some we hook out and others we ignore. And as the pattern changes so does the meaning. We cannot rely on the facts. Time that returns everything, changes everything..a bundle of abandoned clothes. The end of one identity and the beginning of another. ... History is a madman's museum. I think I understand some of this, But it's all subject to the tide. Unmoor the boat. Part miracle part madness. My life is a series of set sails and shipwrecks. I run aground I cut loose, the rim is dangerously near the waterline. I feel like a saint in a coracle. Head thrown back, sun on my throat. Unmoor the boat. — Jeanette Winterson

Freddie felt strongly that a natural appearance was only permissible, only really effective, it if was artificially produced. — Elizabeth Cadell

I can't help feeling that people ask too much [of life]. They don't keep up with the Joneses any more
they outstrip them. What people call happiness, today, isn't happiness. It's enjoyment. It's pleasure. And between happiness and pleasure there's a very large gap. — Elizabeth Cadell

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale. — Mollie King

Our stumbling blocks are transformed into building blocks. — Ava Cadell

Well, she asked him questions about his age and his attainments. The fact that he was a Catholic gave her pause, but when I explained to her that the present Pope was a well-meaning sort of chap, she said she was prepared to meet him halfway. — Elizabeth Cadell

I put my energy into writing songs. I have to carve out a living somehow doing this, and licensing is one way. It's hard to register what's "too much" for other people. I don't watch TV, so it's tough for me to gauge. I just take it as it comes, and don't put a whole lot of thought into it. — Iron & Wine

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

How can any child grope its way through life if its parents or guardians tear up all the pages of the past? — Elizabeth Cadell

I had just come back from an incident with the police and a snowmobile when Pat Cadell called from New York, saying that he was with a bunch of New York Times reporters in a bar and they were curious to know what I thought about what Clinton had to say about marijuana - that he had tried it in college but "didn't inhale." I was embarrassed. What do you mean, "didn't inhale?" What the hell do you think we smoke it for?
I said "Only a fool would say a thing like that. It's just a disgrace to an entire generation. — Hunter S. Thompson