Diarmid Noel Quotes & Sayings

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value. — Ezra Taft Benson

Was I a science experiment? Did he want to pin me down and dissect me? — Suzanne Young

I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head. — Michelle Kwan

There is a recurrent scene from those dinners that surfaces again and again, like an obsessive undercurrent in a dream. Julian, at the head of the long table, rises to his feet and lifts his wineglass. 'Live forever,' he says.

And the rest of us rise too, and clink our glasses across the table, like an army regiment crossing sabres: Henry and Bunny, Charles and Francis, Camilla and I. 'Live forever,' we chorus, throwing our glasses back in unison.

And always, always, that same toast. Live forever. — Donna Tartt

Love has two affirmations. First of all, when the lover encounters the other, there is an immediate affirmation (psychologically: dazzlement, enthusiasm, exaltation, mad projection of a fulfilled future: I am devoured by desire, the impulse to be happy): I say yes to everything (blinding myself). There follows a long tunnel: my first yes is riddled by doubts, love's value is ceaselessly threatened by depreciation: this is the moment of melancholy passion, the rising of resentment and oblation. Yet I can emerge from this tunnel; I can 'surmount,' without liquidating; what I have affirmed a first time, I can once again affirm, without repeating it, for then what I affirm is the affirmation, not its contingency. I affirm the first encounter in its difference, I desire its return, not its repetition. I say to the other (old or new): Let us begin again. — Roland Barthes

We don't need to be crippled any longer by the disease of sin - because God has provided the cure. — Billy Graham