Divertimento Mozart Quotes & Sayings

That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian. — Amy Grant

Being a dominatrix, sticking my foot up people's asses for money, necessitated that I divorce myself from any sort of objective perspective on what I was doing. In order to think about things as a writer you have to objectify your experience. I couldn't have been enacting that experience if I was objectifying it. — Melissa Febos

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk. — John McWhorter

He smiled down into her eyes and she looked right at him and she knew him. When hadn't she known him? With a little sigh of acceptance, she moved into his arms, meeting his eager kiss with a mouth that was just as greedy as him — Claire LaZebnik

From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite. — Paul Newman

If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated. — Herman Koch

A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't. — Harry Callahan

My wife and I always enjoy going for a jog — Will Ferrell

I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect. — Rameet Chawla

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s. — Sarah Brightman

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance. — Bell Hooks

Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before. — Malcolm Gladwell