Mboard Quotes & Sayings

Demerol made it all seem okay. — William Hjortsberg

The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation, which holds between language and the world.
To all of them the logical structure is common.
(Like the two youths, their two horses and their lilies in the story. They are all in a certain sense one.) — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I do not care much about the mysteries of the universe, unless they come to me in words, or in music maybe, or in a set of colours, and then I entertain them merely for their beauty and only briefly. — Colm Toibin

He tucked her hair behind her ears and kissed her.
"I love you Gracie Landon," he said quietly. — Susan Mallery

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. — Ernest Hemingway,

Love is the language of the heart. It can feel the movements of every atom and understand every language spoken or unspoken. — Debasish Mridha

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know. — Mahatma Gandhi

The most important thing when you're working with greatness is to learn from it, not challenge it. — Jeremy Brett

If you can forgive me, forgive
me,' said her eyes, 'I am so happy.'
'I hate them all, and you, and myself,' his eyes
responded. — Leo Tolstoy

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music. — John Dieterich

Blessed be the discipline which makes me reach out my soul's roots into closer union with Jesus! Blessed be the dews of the Spirit which keep my leaf ever green! Blessed be the trials which shake down the ripe, golden fruits from the branches. — Theodore L. Cuyler

Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur. — Gough Whitlam

Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day. — Waris Dirie