Grey Livingston Quotes & Sayings

Offstage, she fixed him in place with compliments and ironic bossiness, and he tended not to look at her at all when they spoke. He was the only one in the band she called by name, implying a permanence to his position that was professionally reassuring but personally debilitating. When they wrote together or when one presented the other with something prepared in private, with no audience to absorb the excess, he felt the room crowding with their other selves, lives unled and correspondences unwritten, happiness opted against, and he could not believe she did not see it, too. He sweated to ornament her fears and tall tales and fake portraits, and with the remnants of his energy he hid the rest of himself from her. The best of him was a child's drawing of her on an off day. — Arthur Phillips

I lean into the mirror. eyes after eyes after eyes stare back at me. am i in there somewhere? — Laurie Halse Anderson

Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz) — Ellen Klages

I was just trying to remove a stain; I made a bigger stain. — Deborah Treisman

Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition. — Richard Branson

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back. — Max Ernst

Reality is okay if you have a friend that will help you up when it comes around to smack you in the face. — Xena Thornton