Indefensibility Quotes & Sayings

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen. — Virginia Graham

Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our own desires. — Okakura Kakuzo

We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence, our joy in the bosom of the serene darkness in which His light holds us absorbed, it is all this that praises Him. — Thomas Merton

I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function. — Britt Ekland

I think Mr. Hawk forgot that he told us to count all our lightbulbs. Because a few days after he told us to do that, he never asked how many lightbulbs we had. But that was okay. Because I kept forgetting to count them anyway. So if he asked, I was going to have to make up a number and say that my house had one thousand three hundred seventy-six lightbulbs. Because I didn't want to look poor. — Kristen Tracy

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be. — Jenny Slate

She crooned on until her cigarette was gone. The ash in the wind blew around us like hesitant snow. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum. — Ornette Coleman

Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game. — Cal Ripken Jr.

The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same as courage. It's closer to bad manners than to courage. [ ... ] if you're going to be a writer, you basically have to say, 'this is just who I am [ ... ]'. There's a certain indefensibility about it. It's not about loving your community and taking care of it - you're not attached to the chamber of commerce. It's a little unsafe. You have to be willing to have only four friends, not 11. — Lorrie Moore

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. — James Anthony Froude

We must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough in either painting, music, or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough — Samuel Butler

The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole. — David Bowie

We must be convinced that abundance is the natural state of the Universe. To experience and accept abundance in our life, we must be convinced that as we conceive and believe, the Universe handles the details. — Ernest Holmes

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever. — Darren Shan

It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes. — Robert Genn