Mandei Bem Quotes & Sayings

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else. — Richard Rodney Bennett

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life. — Hal Boyle

A simple life can make you happy, but taking a few risks along the way can also make it fun. This could all end badly, but for now, I'm going to enjoy it for what it is. — Lisa De Jong

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better. — Adam McKay

The thing about this band is that every member of the band is a song-writer so that takes some of the pressure off. — Joey Jordison

Your self-image is a governor of sorts. It will never let you act in a way that is inconsistent with it. — Robin S. Sharma

It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to the meager writings on even larger number of Africans enslaved in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa, not to mention the vast numbers of Europeans also enslaved in centuries past in the Islamic world and within Europe itself. At least a million Europeans were enslaved by North African pirates alone from 1500 to 1800, and some Europeans slaves were still being sold on the auction blocks in the Egypt, years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed blacks in the United States. — Thomas Sowell

You can imagine these radicals getting a hold of a country where they're able to pull oil off the market to run the price of oil up to extract concession. — George W. Bush

I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules. — Pat Conroy

Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling. — Charles Roven

Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master. — Osho