Junkyard Willie Quotes & Sayings

Forget the Syria debate; we need a debate on why we are always debating on whether to bomb someone. Because we're starting to look not so much like the world's police men but more like George Zimmerman. Itching to use force and then pretending it's because we had no choice. — Bill Maher

I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive ... You don't want to give people the information in an enema. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die ... (90) — Joseph Campbell

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. — Albert Einstein

I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain. — Terry Pratchett

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion. — Nhat Hanh

The girl was very pretty and her body was like a clear mountain river of skin and muscle flowing over rocks of bone and hidden nerves. — Richard Brautigan

You two are like a married couple."
Uh ... I pointed to my head. "Heavy meds here. Say that again."
She rolled her eyes. "You heard me just fine. So did you," she threw to Mason. — Tijan

I say again, you must feel you are freed. It's not right for you to go on as you are. It's not like you. You're a different person. Don't answer. It's not meant to be answered. But it's like the gleaming of stars in a well. And no explanation. — Tarjei Vesaas

I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents. — Gurinder Chadha

Inward battles had lost their chains in the new dawn of Ed's night, and victories were cheering in the calm welcome of new thoughts carrying new perspectives that warmed the tone of his confidence, and made it glow. — Calvin W. Allison

Why do I love him? ... I don't think love has a reason ... I think love comes first and then the reasons follow. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Our foreheads met, her small nose pressed against mine. Everything intensified. Plums, magentas, limes, and cobalts turned into stars going through their entire life cycles. They birthed, lived, and died right before my eyes, — Nina G. Jones

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. — J. Paul Getty

He [Gorbachev] did initially oppose the absorption of a united Germany into NATO; and even after conceding the point in principle* continued to insist that NATO troops not be allowed to move 300 kilometers east to the Polish border - something US Secretary of State James Baker actually promised to his Soviet counterpart in February 1990. But when that promise was later broken Gorbachev was helpless to intervene."

*There is some evidence that Gorbachev conceded this crucial point inadvertently, when he acceded in May 1990 to President Bush's suggestion that Germany's right of self-determination should include the freedom to 'choose its alliances'. — Tony Judt