Cinematic Orchestra Quotes & Sayings

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life. — Vance Havner

punch line: The most basic way to make people care is to form an association between something they don't yet care about and something they do care about. — Chip Heath

Ms. It sounds like a sick bumblebee, it sounds frigid. I mean, who the hell would ever want to stick his hand up the dress of somebody who goes around calling herself something like Ms.? It's all so stupid. — Patti Smith

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers. — Nick Clegg

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby. — Larry Page

And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel. — Homer

When you feel doubt, let your heart lead you forward, not back. — Erin Hunter

He was the color of blood, not the springing blood of the heart but the blood that stirs under an old wound that never really healed. A terrible light poured from him like sweat, and his roar started landslides flowing into one another. His horns were pale as scars. — Peter S. Beagle

The most obvious effect of inverting a chord is to change its bass note, and one result of voice leading through the use of inversions is the creation of melodic bass lines that connect from chord to chord by steps rather than by the wider leaps common when root position voicings alone are used. — Carl Schroeder

...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems. — David Welch

And what do I think about? What thoughts do I have! - What thoughts! a whole host, multitude, and world of thoughts, I keep devising new ones and reworking old ones, some of the old ones are concluded and are only thought of as conclusions, whole worlds of new ones come crashing into my fingers, and it never ends. — Jack Kerouac

Of course, they didn't give names or dates, they spoke in what might be called abstract terms, but despite the seemingly detached presentation of their misfortunes, the conversation and the walk only sank deeper into a state of melancholy, to such a degree that after two hours they both felt as if they were suffocating. — Roberto Bolano

Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren't necessarily human, are they? — Alyssa Hubbard

True forgiveness is a willingness to change your mind about your Self. — Robert Holden