Devestations Quotes & Sayings

When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it. — Andrea Bocelli

London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool. — Carine Roitfeld

In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that. — Regina Doman

Jesus's solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God. — John Piper

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this
then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. — Virginia Woolf

If you ever want to know how a man truly feels about you, do absolutely nothing. Then you'll have your answer. — Miya Yamanouchi

Compassion is a spiritual technology. — Krista Tippett

It's about Nietzsche's theory of universal debt. Your parents make it possible for you to believe a far better myth than Santa. They let you think that you, as a kid, don't owe the world a thing. The world can give you, even if just for a few minutes, utter joy without requiring anything from you. It's not about consumerism. As far as you know, no one buys you these presents. They come out of nothingness, with fantasies of elves attached. You aren't required to be grateful to your parents or anything like that. They can give to you and nothing is required in return. When you get old enough, when you have kids, you get to enact this myth for them. It has nothing to do with any fat man in a red suit, no matter what we tell ourselves. It's about owing nothing, and then realizing that you have to do this job of perpetuating this ... this fantasy world, whether you like it or not. — Thomm Quackenbush

After five minutes, or ten, or fifteen - it doesn't matter - open your eyes and resume your day. For a moment or two things might seem more alive. — Mark Epstein

I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me. — Louis Armstrong

He was a hand-holder; she'd gathered that much. Lovely quality in a man ... — Grace Burrowes