Choirmaster Organist Quotes & Sayings

Encouragement is uplifting to the spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley) — L.M. Montgomery

I didn't ask to be born!"
"No, but I asked." He was breathing hard. His eyes hard and glinting with a fire that burned straight through me. "I asked for you every day of my life! — Airicka Phoenix

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise. — Paul McCartney

There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between. — Werner Herzog

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. — Mary Stewart

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. — Edward Dahlberg

Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away. — Alan Weisman

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made. — Ferruccio Busoni

Yes, darling, that is quite a nice frock, but the hankerchief is not only the wrong shade of grey, but quite damnably tied. Let me show you, my sweet. — Georgette Heyer

For in the end, alcohol is merely us, a materialization of our own nature. To repress it is to repress something that we know about ourselves but cannot celebrate or even accept. It is like having a dance partner we cannot trust with our wallet. — Lawrence Osborne

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service. — Theodore Roosevelt

Somebody left the American Dream in the toaster too long. It's now burnt to a crisp. — Joe Bageant

If you want to know what's in motherhood for you, as a woman, then - in truth - it's nothing you couldn't get from, say, reading the 100 greatest books in human history; learning a foreign language well enough to argue in it; climbing hills; loving recklessly; sitting quietly, alone, in the dawn; drinking whisky with revolutionaries; learning to do close-hand magic; swimming in a river in winter; growing foxgloves, peas and roses; calling your mum; singing while you walk; being polite; and always, always helping strangers. No one has ever claimed for a moment that childless men have missed out on a vital aspect of their existence, and were the poorer, and crippled by it. — Caitlin Moran

(On belief in miracles) - The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. — David Hume