Houshin Engi Quotes & Sayings

Ig had always liked to listen to his father, to watch him while he played. It was almost wrong to say his father played. It often seemed the other way around: that the horn was playing him. The way his cheeks swole out, then caved in as if he were being inhaled into it, the way the golden keys seemed to grab his fingers like little magnets snatching at iron filings, causing them to leap and dance in unexpected, startling fits. The way he shut his eyes and bent his head and twisted back and forth at the hips, as if his torso were in auger, screwing its way deeper and deeper into the centre of his being, pulling the music up from somewhere in the pit of his belly. — Joe Hill

People like to talk more than they like to act. They like to sit there and complain and vent. Somehow they think that changes things, when it doesn't. — James Patterson

In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre. — David Wenham

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire. — Tara Reid

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment. — Dean Smith

I like my customer to be fierce. — Christian Louboutin

My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me. — Zachary Cole Smith

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. — Fred Allen

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out. — Duane G. Carey

I'm running out of mind. — Lena Karynn Tesla

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time. — Suzanne Vega

Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still. — Caroline Emelia Stephen

First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld. — John Crowley

Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier. — Gary Cole

Every pound for a woman in the real world is seven pounds for an actress. — Amber Heard