Chegg Books Quotes & Sayings

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late. — Jean Giraudoux

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions. — Anthony Braxton

Try as we will, we cannot escape the making of mistakes. But fortunately, the ever humbling cycle of growing strong roots comes from eating what grows from our own shit, from digesting and processing our own humanity. Like the buffalo, we are nourished by what sprouts from our own broken trail. What we trample and leave behind fertilizes what will feed us. No one is exempt. — Mark Nepo

Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that enormous whole. — Leo Tolstoy

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected. — Talib Kweli

Words fail.... As a grudging admission, after much denial, that even as we try to preserve and create, through, with, in language, whatever is beautiful or scandalous in our lives, language fails because it falsifies. Like money, it corrupts the very possibilities it creates. Words after all the first currency. ... In trying to say what we mean, we end up saying something else. ... And yet, we have nothing else but words. — Ramon C. Sunico

Tidal waves surge forward,
And in their wake, Stale water is replenished.
(Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER) — Wendy Shreve

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression. — Sally Kirkland