Kiriko Glass Quotes & Sayings

Offstage, she fixed him in place with compliments and ironic bossiness, and he tended not to look at her at all when they spoke. He was the only one in the band she called by name, implying a permanence to his position that was professionally reassuring but personally debilitating. When they wrote together or when one presented the other with something prepared in private, with no audience to absorb the excess, he felt the room crowding with their other selves, lives unled and correspondences unwritten, happiness opted against, and he could not believe she did not see it, too. He sweated to ornament her fears and tall tales and fake portraits, and with the remnants of his energy he hid the rest of himself from her. The best of him was a child's drawing of her on an off day. — Arthur Phillips

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living. — Kirke Mechem

I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question.
Tell me," I said.
You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones. — Ravi Zacharias

I tell you, dear Citizen Camille - it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom. — Hilary Mantel

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. — David Attenborough

Because it can be deceived, the majority is as error-prone as any other ruler, but unlike other rulers, it can never be destroyed. — F.F. White

I think I was so entranced with being a couple that I didn't even notice that the person I thought I was a couple with thought he was a couple with someone else. — Nora Ephron

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground. — Henry S. F. Cooper

It doesn't take long in Hell before your definition of "good company" reduces to "not dead." For — Mark Lawrence