Glinting Plunder Quotes & Sayings

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity. — Chris Cornell

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out. — Donna Tartt

The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked. — Leila Aboulela

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can do it,you just have to believe in yourself. — Lizthewiz

My brother and I both used to worry about dying at 40 because our father died at 40. That probably wasn't terribly rational, since my father led a rather unhealthy lifestyle, shall we say. — Wes Craven

- and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This ensures that when I'm bogged down with day-to-day bureaucracy and details, I don't lose sight of what I really want. — Sophia Amoruso

Lately it's started to seem to me that here in America our fetishization of self-reliance has taken a wrong turn and has helped enable us to jettison compassion as a national value while still maintaining a vision of ourselves as essentially well-meaning. It hasn't taken a whole lot of common sense, given the evidence of the last few years, to puzzle out the heartlessness of unregulated capitalism, and yet our political class has embraced even more fervently the notion of every man for himself, even given the ever-growing numbers such a philosophy leaves behind. — Jim Shepard

Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles. — Norm MacDonald

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on ... one take or two take. — Dennis Brown

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. — Erma Bombeck

Life is too short for Dean Koontz. I am never going to read a shitty book again. — Alex

Poets make the best topographers. — W.G. Hoskins

In this world we must help one another. — Jean De La Fontaine