Joni Michell Quotes & Sayings

The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves. — Joseph Curiale

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock before I'm allowed to go and do something else. I just try to keep a hand in and work every single day, even if there are other demands or I'm on a book tour or have the flu or something, because then I keep my unconscious engaged with the book. Then I'm always a little bit writing, no matter what else I'm doing. — Jonathan Lethem

I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways. — John Elkington

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade. — Paloma Faith

To eat steak rare ... represents both a nature and a morality. — Roland Barthes

Categories No. 4 and No. 5: Three small cards to a straight and two small cards with an ace. — Ray Zee

God gave me both a brain and a body, and I shall use them both. — Rose O'Neal Greenhow

Only one acorn in a thousand ever grew large enough to fight rabbits; the rest were drowned at birth in the prairie sea. It is a warming thought that this one wasn't, and thus lived to garner eighty years of June sun. It is this sunlight that is now being released, through the intervention of my axe and saw, to warm my shack and my spirit through eighty gusts of blizzard. And with each gust a wisp of smoke from my chimney bears witness, to whomsoever it may concern, that the sun did not shine in vain. — Aldo Leopold

(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls. — Yitzhak Shamir

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest. — Emily Dickinson

You have to conquer the mountain if you are going any futher — Olav H. Hauge

You can pay a mercenary to fight, you can't pay him to die. — J.D. Rhoades