Lopaka Quotes & Sayings

I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry. — Diana Ross

It was the way he wore the place. You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes and phrases like "my kind of town" and "I wanna be a part of it" in it; the kind of song where people dance in the street and give the singer apples and join in and a dozen lowly matchgirls suddenly show amazing choreographical ability and everyone acts like cheery lovable citizens instead of the murderous, evil-minded, self-centered people they suspect themselves to be. But the point was that if Carrot had erupted into a song, people WOULD have joined in. Carrot could have jollied up a circle of standing stones to form up behind him and do a rumba. — Terry Pratchett

(M)ediocre, (O)bedient, (D)ependent, (E)ntertained, and (L)ifeless and — MJ DeMarco

You life is a book; make it a bestseller. — Shanon Grey

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps. — Honore De Balzac

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours. — James E. Faust

Primary question, over time, became a question about love. Where was I to find love? Where was I to give love? — Wesley Hill

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're like. They are in love with language. They're obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren't more special than anybody else's, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational. — David Small

On the date before the date, time reverses. — Erin Moure

I'll pretend to be who they want me to be.' He grinned then, and she saw his youth. 'But it won't work. In the end I'll have to disappoint someone. Either them, or myself. — Alice Hoffman

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective. — Janet Frame

A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job. — Cynthia Weil

This quality of Jewish folk music [- it can appear to be happy when it's tragic-] is close to my idea of what music should be. The should always be two layers in music. — Dmitri Shostakovich