Gallmann Memorial Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with. — Jeffrey Eugenides

She wishes she was old. She'd swap her life to be in a life that was nearly over, so long as she didn't have to be here. — Jenny Downham

It doesn't matter how you express it, intention matters, finally! — Gulshan Naqvee

Unless a miracle saves us,' Khushwant Singh writes, 'the country will break up. It will not be Pakistan or any other foreign power that will destroy us; we will commit hara-kiri. — Khushwant Singh

If music serves to convey feelings through the interaction of physical gestures and sound, the musician needs his brain state to match the emotional state he is trying to express. Although the studies haven't been performed yet, I'm willing to bet that when B.B. King is playing the blues and when he is feeling the blues, the neural signatures are very similar. (Of course there will be differences, too, and part of the scientific hurdle will be subtracting out the processes involved in issuing motor commands and listening to music, versus just sitting on a chair, head in hands, and feeling down.) And as listeners, there is every reason to believe that some of our brain states will match those of the musicians we are listening to. — Daniel J. Levitin

I remember playing Coachella and seeing kids in the audience who weren't even born when we had our initial run of success. They were singing along to every word, which was an amazing thing to see. — David Lovering

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body. — George Jean Nathan

If we humans can so easily wash the blood of our fellow humans off our hands, then what hope is there for sparing our future generations from a repeat of the genocides and mass killings of the past? — Thomas Buergenthal

If one understands what the actual philosophical definition of "God" is in most of the great religious traditions, and if consequently one understands what is logically entailed in denying that there is any God so defined, then one cannot reject the reality of God tout court without embracing an ultimate absurdity. — David Bentley Hart

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply — Josh Billings

Home's where the people you love are. It's about finding the things that matter to you, and holding on to them and taking care of them. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were. — Jay Asher

She was the mysterious moon that cloaked and shadowed and watched over the sleeping land, and the glorious sun that burned through darkness and warmed cold hearts. — Laken Cane

It feels like we are sitting on the tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him and sneaking glances when the other one isn't looking. — Jodi Picoult