Marijoy Currier Quotes & Sayings

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee. — Leonard Cohen

The afternoon was very hot, so hot that the breaking of the waves on the shore sounded like the repeated sigh of some exhausted creature, and even on the terrace under an awning the bricks were hot, and the air danced perpetually over the short dry grass. The red flowers in the stone basins were drooping with the heat, and the white blossoms which had been so smooth and thick only a few weeks ago were now dry, and their edges were curled and yellow. Only the stiff and hostile plants of the south, whose fleshy leaves seemed to be grown upon spines, still remained standing upright and defied the sun to beat them down. — Virginia Woolf

People were laughing at me anyway, so I thought I might as well start charging them. — Sarah Millican

In studying music, you're dealing with a person, not just what comes to you on a piece of paper, and it's important to get hold of what it is that lies between that person as a person, and the things which they're producing on the paper. I don't know whether I see things in too complex a fashion, but often people will do things which are not actually their nature, but will do things because they think that's what they should do. — Richard Meale

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'. — John Lennon

The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind. — Marianne Williamson

Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas. — Tom Hodgkinson

30Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. 31Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praises at the city gate. — Anonymous

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. — James Weldon Johnson

Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying up the word slave with the adjective-noun constructions makes "enslaved African" sound nonchalant. As in "Those were the cabins of the jolly leprechauns. — Sarah Vowell

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. — Erich Maria Remarque

I know a place that serves great falafel." "Falafel?" "No, I don't feel awful." Herb grinned. "I feel pretty good. — J.A. Konrath

I think it was 89.2% cheers and 11.8% boos, but I'm used to that. — Shaquille O'Neal

We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles. — Hilary Mantel