Helgas Band Quotes & Sayings

I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single song. Plotting takes time and effort, for there are many false turns. I fill up pages and pages with my mistakes, thereby eliminating them. Eventually a trail is broken through this mountain of mistakes. Sometimes it's as easy as putting eggs in a basket; other times it's like trying to pound a ton of sand into a diamond. — David Massengill

There is always some sleight of hand going on in writing autobiography. So much has to be left out, especially things that might hurt or dismay people. But in a novel one can say everything. The novel is often autobiography distilled and / or transcended. — May Sarton

Cancer is tangible. People feel compassion for you if you get cancer. Not so much if you're an alcoholic. And a mother who drinks? Forget it. Straight to hell. Big fat scarlet letter branded on our foreheads for life. Me and Hester Prynne? Same letter, different sins. — Amy Hatvany

All of my favorite songs can bring me to tears. Some are rock, some are blues, some are love ballads. That's why I play music - to touch other people as I have been touched. — Kelly Blatz

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others. — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If only I would have done this, I should have done this, I could have done this ... " He swore. "Life is full of those three. — Rachel Van Dyken

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have. — Mamie Van Doren

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work. — Anton Chekhov

Losing something is difficult while gaining something is easier. So try to gain beauty and make your life prettier. — Debasish Mridha

Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife — Aldous Huxley

Bad gains are true losses. — Benjamin Franklin

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know? — Ned Vizzini

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion. So in order to practice compassion, you should have an enemy. — Dalai Lama XIV

When God is silent, we need to know Him deeper than we had known Him before — Sunday Adelaja

You be respectable, sister," she said, "Me, I'll be alive. — Salman Rushdie