Cissoko Mamady Quotes & Sayings

Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me. — Andrea Bocelli

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways ... It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being. — John Connolly

As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they? I felt when I got to the end that I'd lived for years in that set. But oh dearie me I am glad that I'm not in it! — Lytton Strachey

A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere
even in prison. — Louis Auchincloss

When it's football season, I'm all football. — Hayden Fry

You know, people would always ask me, 'How long is Primus going to go on?' And I would say, 'Until it isn't fun anymore.' At the end of the '90s, it just wasn't fun anymore on many levels. — Les Claypool

To guard themselves is the way of people whose instinct is to nurture and protect. — Iris Johansen

The voice is a second face. — Michael Gerard Bauer

To do the intellectually demanding work of writing, I leave my home office and my three beloved computer monitors to work at the wonderful old library that's just a block from my apartment. The atmosphere of a library helps me to think. When I want to take a break, instead of heading to the kitchen for a snack, I wander among the many floors of books. — Gretchen Rubin

I'm capable of taking my own decisions. — Paulo Coelho

The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us! — Pope Francis

Because when I look at you, I forget everything. I lose all track of what I'm saying or doing. I can see only your eyes. — Jennifer Ashley

Unfortunately, whatever Indians have not been able to achieve in their lives, they wanted Sachin to achieve it for them. Now that is what I call pressure. — Vikram Sathaye

That smile, right there?"
"Yeah?"
"I've known you my entire life. You only smile like that for me. — Amy Lane

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it. — Thelma Ritter