Furphy Laramie Quotes & Sayings

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. — Benjamin Britten

Nine herons stand like flowers in the canal beside the coking plant. — Anthony Doerr

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life. — Vic Oliver

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison. — Eduardo Galeano

This evening he almost would have preferred to keep his feelings hidden. But it was, of course, against the rules. — Lois Lowry

You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it. — Jessica Watson

Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does. — Loren Cunningham

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career. — John Waters

We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success. — Jamie Lee Curtis

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. — Miguel De Cervantes

Uncle Avi were there. He would understand. But it was clear that his father did not see the seriousness of the threat, even after Ruth's death. Dr. Weisz grieved over his daughter, to be sure, but he absolutely refused to believe it represented the policy of the Third Reich. Jacob found himself deeply troubled by the news but even more so by the realization that his father still seemed so unwilling to face up to the dangers Hitler posed to the Jewish people - not just in Germany but throughout Europe. He still seemed to think this was a brief anomaly, not the beginning of a far greater evil. — Joel C. Rosenberg

I don't belive Oprah's sexual abuse stories, I mean who would take a black girl when there are plenty of white? — Zach Braff

What it is ... is a place where I can return to myself. It's enough of a scramble to get to ... that the energy expended is significant, and it translates into a change in my body chemistry and my psychological chemistry and my heart chemistry ... — Jay Salter