Illegal Tender Quotes & Sayings

What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years. — Don DeLillo

Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart. — Twyla Tharp

The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst. — Bill Vaughan

Life is but an endless series of experiments. — Mahatma Gandhi

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks? — Nora Ephron

Soraya-joon, I have done all that I could. Do not be sorry for us. Your mother and I await you upon your return. We love you more than we have loved life. After your dear brother name your first son. Live here if you like, but if you sell it take no less than one hundred thousand dollars. ~Bawbaw — Andre Dubus III

There, alone in the sterile room, sitting on a pink vinyl chair that boasts many cracks in its once nice upholster, you wait. You think to yourself , who would have thought I would be ringing in the New Year by urinating into a cup to see if I have chlamydia? — Amanda Steele

Even in the pettiest, most unpromising material, she had discovered, you could find real treasures. — Neil Gaiman

One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun. — Ann Landers

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice. — Chuck Palahniuk

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me. — Josh Groban

I will make you a fisher of men — Anonymous

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act. — Maria Grazia Cucinotta