Furrowes Quotes & Sayings

All of us must do our best to live gracefully in the present moment. I now see depression as akin to being tied to a chair with restraints on my wrists. It took me a long time to realize that I only magnify my distress by struggling for freedom. My pain diminished when I gave up trying to escape completely from it. However, don't interpret my current approach to depression as utterly fatalistic. I do whatever I can to dull depression's pain, while premising my life on its continuing presence. The theologian and philosopher Thomas Moore puts it well with his distinction between cure and care. While cure implies the eradication of trouble, care "appreciates the mystery of human suffering and does not offer the illusion of a problem-free life. — David A. Karp

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel. — Elliott Smith

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. — Tom Lehrer

My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise. — Ken Bruen

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant. — Rush Limbaugh

I am optimistic about the future of music. — George Crumb

You think I could meet the most amazing person and not know how I could see her again? — Nicole Gulla

Aging and death is what happens to everybody. — Young Jean Lee

If you're looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. — Hugh MacLeod

Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter! — Dani Shapiro

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. — Bernard Baruch

There's a realm above the trees
Where the lost are finally found
Touch your feathers to the breeze
And leave the ground. — Owl City

Edward:
Well Mortimer, ile make thee rue these words,
Beseemes it thee to contradict thy king?
Frownst thou thereat, aspiring Lancaster,
The sworde shall plane the furrowes of thy browes,
And hew these knees that now are growne so stiffe.
I will have Gaveston, and you shall know,
What danger tis to stand against your king.
Gaveston:
Well doone, Ned. — Christopher Marlowe

Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. — Barack Obama