Chantons Quotes & Sayings

Francesca said nothing, wondering about a man to whom the difference between a pasture and a meadow seemed important, who got excited about sky color, who wrote a little poetry but not much fiction. Who played the guitar, who earned his living by images and carried his tools in knapsacks. Who seemed like the wind. And moved like it. Came from it, perhaps. — Robert James Waller

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is. — John Ashbery

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused. — Shirley Maclaine

I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.' — Hallie Ephron

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy. — Helen Keller

The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true. — Liu Bei

When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, and he's with Jack and a lot of my brothers and sisters and my parents.' So it made it very easy to get through the day thinking he was OK. — Ethel Kennedy

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher. — Danny McBride

Meditate upon the Om that is in the heart. — Swami Vivekananda

The world, it treats you kind enough so long as you're not fightin against it. — Alden Bell

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. — Mary Tyler Moore

An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reversed. A palindrome: gut-tug. — Lorrie Moore