Krikorian Monrovia Quotes & Sayings

It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It was such a magical, beautiful sound. I dedicated my entire childhood to cello, practising like crazy. — Stjepan Hauser

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security. — Dianne Feinstein

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it. — Martha Grimes

The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings - and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves. — Rabindranath Tagore

No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper. — Jadakiss

For prayers to be efficacious, they must be in harmony with the plan of heaven. The prayer of faith bears fruit when such harmony exists, and this harmony exists when prayers are inspired by the Holy Spirit. — Keith B. McMullin

Memory - uncorrected, uncorroborated, and (by its very nature) unreliable - is what allows us to retroactively create the blueprints of our lives, because it is often impossible to make sense of our lives when we're inside them, when the narratives are still unfolding: This can't be happening. Why is this happening? Why is this happening now? Only by looking backward are we able answer those questions, only through the assist of memory. And who knows how memory will answer? Who will it blame? Who will it forgive? — Stephanie Kallos

Engineering stimulates the mind. — Bruce Dickinson

E-create the universe every morning when you wake up. And kill it every evening. — Holly Childs

Plastic tries to remember a fur-losing accident, but it must have slipped her mind. — Emily Jenkins

I think anyone who suffers from chronic pain can agree with this - you feel this great significance. What I wanted to capture was that significance, and as a matter of fact I think that's one of the lyrics on 'Conflict,' on the split. I touch on the significance, and really it's a selfish thing, in an offbeat way. — Phil Anselmo

Austin stared at me in shock. "You're going to get us both killed."

"At least we'll die pretty," I told him with a smirk. — Chris O'Guinn

It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home. — John Buchan

My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky. — Patrick DeWitt