Ernie Songs Quotes & Sayings

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind. — Arthur Koestler

Inspiration is finding something that excites you. — Connie Smith

The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because of its large scale, the hardest to perceive, yet at once the most palpable and atmospherically powerful. Its counterpart is the informalization of spirituality - accompanied by its commercialization in the corresponding subcultures. The threshold values for these two tendencies provide the intellectual landmarks for the twentieth century: the first tendency is represented by sport, which has become a metaphor for achievement as such, and the second by popular music, that devotio postmoderna which covers the lives of contemporary individuals with unpredictable flashes of inner emergency. — Peter Sloterdijk

If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude. — Brenda Ueland

The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole? — Will Rogers

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again. — Wesley Morris

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow. — Kelly McGillis

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying. — Evangeline Lilly

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. — Barbara Sher

The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received. — Whitley Strieber

The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you — Winston Churchill

Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind. — Jean Genet