Ivkova Quotes & Sayings

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day. — Ringo Starr

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. — Jane Austen

She loved him, the way the she should love Julian: Uncle Arthur would have called it philia, friendship love. — Cassandra Clare

Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass..." Hamlet. — William Shakespeare

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.' — Lewis Black

The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there. — Baron Vaughn

Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land. — John Mellencamp

Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed. — Ariel Pink

You know, and the fact that Nina Simone had to start playing in clubs and sing because her parents had moved north to support her music education. You know, so she had to sing. She had to make a living 'cause she was supporting her family. So poverty and race put her in this place which, you know, created enormous success, but it's not what her psyche was all about. — Liz Garbus

People always laugh, because they don't expect words like shit to come one of someone so petite, someone with a voice so quiet, so sweet. — Stephanie Perkins

Your humble light the fire of your mind blinds you: If you walk with a lantern in the dark you won't see the stars. — Hans Borli

I don't really know what's going to happen in the future, but I think it's really important for bands to have strong connection with their fans. — Jason Wade

Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the ease we have never found). The marketers don't tell us much about their products, but they spend a great deal of energy (and enormous amounts of money) appealing to our fears and dreams. Thus, the idolatry of possessions plays to the deeper idolatry of our selves-and in an endlessly consuming society, persons are always remaking themselves with new belongings. — Marva Dawn

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them. — Michel De Montaigne