La Musica Quotes & Sayings

I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder. — Andre Dubus III

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ... — James Hurst

Silence took over for a full hour. They drove on. He didn't care anymore. They saw the sign for the next service station twenty minutes after they joined the M5 southbound. He didn't know what they were doing, where they were going."

From 'The Journey' (Banfield Tales) — Michael Braccia

I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different shows. — Laura Benanti

Some habits, in other words, matter more than others in remaking businesses and lives. These are "keystone habits," and they can influence how people work, eat, play, live, spend, and communicate. — Charles Duhigg

Moral philosophy is very largely a branch of fiction. Despite this, a philosopher has yet to write a great novel. The fact should not be surprising. In philosophy the truth about human life is of no interest — John N. Gray

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. — Simone Weil

I prefer to think of myself as a devout Narcissist.
What does that mean?
If the sun is shining, I thank God. If it rains, I blame him. — Teresa Medeiros

Oh, yeah." Carissa nodded. "They were googley-eyed in class on Friday. It was pretty steamy, the whole 'I'm
screwing you with my eyes' thing they had going on." I choked on my drink. "That was not what we were doing. We were talking! — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides! — Charles Spurgeon

It is tragic the way fearful people put all of their fears and insecurities into others; the way they strangle their dreams - often in the name of love. — Bryant McGill

We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world, but we wish to evaluate the world "correctly," i.e., in according with that it truly is, and the desire to know is directed at determining what the world truly is. — Raymond Geuss

Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding. — Lindsey Graham

The world always seems like it's going to hell when you're depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That's what makes it so hard to tell the difference between Armageddon and the blues. — Andrew Klavan