Chigliak Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art. — Gunther Schuller

Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind. — D. L. Hughley

In the OED editors' defense, they have set out to accomplish something that is inherently impossible - to record the entirety of a language. It is only natural they should occasionally come across words that are virtually indefinable, or that have meanings that have been lost to the ages. Whatever failings or inconsistencies the editors may exhibit are certainly not for lack of effort. James Murray in particular was renowned for attempting to ferret out knowledge, writing letters to every authority he could think of and posting queries in newspapers begging for information on a word. When I read the definition of lege de moy ("App. the name of some dance") I cannot help but imagine that they must have spent a tremendous amount of time looking for the meaning and roots of this word before one of the editors finally threw his hands up in disgust and exclaimed, "What the hell - just say it's some kind of dance or something, and let's get to the pub." As — Ammon Shea

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times. — Emma Donoghue

Honestly, before I settled on a name for the Bon Iver project in general, Chigliak was in the running for what I was going to name the band. — Justin Vernon

Anyway," Alaska said to me. "I thought the way he treated you was just awful. I wanted to cry. I just wanted to kiss you and make it better. — John Green

Be the hero of your own life story. — Gerard Butler

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music. — Roddy Woomble

You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it. — Evan Esar

Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe. — Alan W. Watts

Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness). — Sathya Sai Baba

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now. — George H. W. Bush

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. — Bernard Williams

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play. — Helen Vendler

I hope I have a few years left in my 'last days,' but whether I do or do not, I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done. — Harriet Lerner