Jaunty Tune Quotes & Sayings

The aim of all spiritual practice is love. — Sathya Sai Baba

He looked like you ripped his heart out of his chest, threw it to
the ground, and stomped all over it while singing a jaunty tune."
Annwyl shrugged at Morfyd's bemused expression. "I might have
seen that look before on his brother."
"Perhaps when you stabbed our father?"
Annwyl laughed. "No. Then he just looked proud. — G.A. Aiken

She put the steaming mutton down in front and he smacked his lips 'they taught you something where you came from, anyway,' he said. 'I always say there's two things women ought to do by instinct, and cookin's one of 'em. — Daphne Du Maurier

[S]ongs must be measured by their utility. Any jaunty little tune that can get you from one point to another as you drive, or get you through the dishes, or that can illuminate or dignify your courting, I always appreciate.
-interview, 1995 — Leonard Cohen

A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It will be required sooner if we are to hold the risks of climate change to acceptable levels. The costs that we bear in making an early adjustment will bring forward, and reduce for future times, the costs of the inevitable eventual adjustment away from fossil fuels. — Ross Garnaut

Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you. — Erica Goros

Trent Vincent Andrews!" came a voice from inside the condo. "What was that?" Harper jumped. Trent grimaced. The morning was about to get a lot more entertaining. "Are you home, sweetheart?" Harper's eyes went wide. "Vincent?" Trent jumped off the bed and threw the cover over Harper. "My mom shows up, you're naked, I have a raging hard-on, and yet you focus on my middle name? — Scarlett Cole

I should have guessed Kashmir would become a nuisance. And a bad influence. But most importantly, a friend. — Heidi Heilig

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace. — George Herbert

All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston Churchill — Stuart Finlay

It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian. — Victoria Jackson

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. — Peter Marshall

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things. — Julius Caesar

I really wanted something that could make a statement about what we were doing and the life we were living in society, and the shows that push the boundaries, in those ways, are shows on cable, particularly networks like Showtime. — Josh Lawson

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. — Winston Churchill

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing. — Neil Gaiman