Llevadero Quotes & Sayings

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase. — Ralph Ellison

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia. — Dave Grohl

Grief, like death, is banal and unique. So, a banal comparison. When you change your make of car, you suddenly notice how many other cars of the same sort there are on the road. They register in a way they never did before. When you are widowed, you suddenly notice all the widows and widowers coming towards you. Before, they had been more or less invisible, and they continue to remain so to the other drivers, to the unwidowed. — Julian Barnes

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding. — Edward Teller

One unlikely Luddite was also one of the first long-term beneficiaries. Plato (channeling the nonwriter Socrates) warned that this technology meant impoverishment: For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom. — James Gleick

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. — Wallis Simpson

I have fake eye lashes on and they feel like tarantulas. But they're not real tarantulas. — Kellie Pickler

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian. — Chris Tucker

CHAPTER FOURTEEN SECRETS Jo — Louisa May Alcott

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life. — Curt Flood

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter. — J.G. Ballard