Energy New England Quotes & Sayings

My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture. — Alicia Markova

I never realized how exhausting it was to turn women away. It was one thing to hook up with them and then call it a day, but to be off the market completely was something I'd never dealt with before. To put it simply, girls don't like being rejected, especially if it's because of another girl. — J. Sterling

Starting with Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, by 1760, there had been eighteen uprisings aimed at overthrowing colonial governments. There had also been six black rebellions, from South Carolina to New York, and forty riots of various origins. By this time also, there emerged, according to Jack Greene, "stable, coherent, effective and acknowledged local political and social elites." And by the 1760s, this local leadership saw the possibility of directing much of the rebellious energy against England and her local officials. It was not a conscious conspiracy, but an accumulation of tactical responses. — Howard Zinn

There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous. — Ben Kingsley

Its pointless. Hopeless. Even if she weren't afraid of me, we'll always be enemies at the core. She rules a wicked, selfish city, and my tribe suffers for her peoples comfort. Shes a queen; I'm her prisoner. I resent her and she fears me, and there are times when I fear her, too. I am her monster, and she is mine. But right now none of it matters. — Stacey Jay

Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form. — Merce Cunningham

Breaking a fast feels like the exact opposite of a hangover. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise? — John C. Calhoun

As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which by another stretch of objective standards might be called history. — James A. Michener

Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do ... It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble. — Nora Roberts

Good taste is not the birthright of snobs, but a gift from God sometimes found in the unlikeliest of people". — Richard C. Morais

Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics ... I understood fashion at an early age, and my first designs were when I was five. — Reem Acra

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid — Giuseppe Verdi

It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way. — Gorillaz

There's this moment, just before it happens, when everything around you goes still. It's like that moment you get just before it snows - like nature is holding its breath ... And in that moment, anything is possible, and everything you know is called into question. — Miranda Dickinson

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard. — Lyle Lovett