Foolisher Or More Foolish Quotes & Sayings

We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what these guys do.' They take one chord, the tonic chord, and just play all over it. 'We can do that too!' I wanted to make our music something really amazing - I wanted it to be jaw-dropping and turn on a dime and do all of those things that I knew music could do, and nobody told us we couldn't do it. I shouldn't say 'I,' though - Jerry Garcia was behind it the whole way. — Phil Lesh

But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle. — Will Schwalbe

There, that's better. I want to do this with you looking as God made you. Shannon whatever-your-middle-name-is Tinker, I've never been normal. Not one single day on this planet. But last night? When you clapped for joy at my newfound, piss-soaked balls? My heart stopped. I couldn't even think - my mind stalled. I have never seen anything more beautiful than your face in the moonlight as you clapped for my crazy. Please, let's be stupid together, stupid for each other, stupid for the rest of our lives. Be my queen, officially. With you here, even this tremendous dung pile looks like a kingdom to me. — Debra Anastasia

In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else. — Henning Mankell

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures. — Katherine Center

The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves. — Erin Morgenstern

Guillermo taps his foot impatiently. Oscar winks at me, sending my stomach on an elevator ride. "To be continued," he says. — Jandy Nelson

He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked. — Laura Anderson Kurk

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher. — Mark Twain

I live bigger than your labels.
-Samantha N. — Rachel Fershleiser

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. — Jackie DeShannon

We must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake. — Sunday Adelaja