Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington Quotes & Sayings

Life can surprise you. You want something with every ounce of blood that flows in your veins, and then one day it's yours. Right there before you. Everything. You break out in a cold sweat with the undeniable realization that what you really want is home. Sometimes finding home is a long time coming. A long journey. — Brenda Sutton Rose

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano? — Malcolm Gladwell

The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them. — Bruno Schulz

You write a thought down because you want to see what next as a thought is going to come out. — Deyth Banger

You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior. — Jeremiah Wright

Isn't this the Eolian? I had heard that this is where pride pays silver and plays golden. — Patrick Rothfuss

I've thought of ending my life, Fool. I admit it. But always, no matter the damage to it, the body tries to go on. And if it manages to, then the mind follows it. Eventually, — Robin Hobb

When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, "Love you but no." — Michelle Singletary

Half of the population is behind bars and the other half is guarding them,' Russians have said of their country since the times of Stalin. — Masha Gessen

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school. — Samantha Fox

The fire alarm is not the fire. — Marty Rubin