Meara Stiller Quotes & Sayings

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. — Shane MacGowan

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. — Arthur Conan Doyle

In these economic times, reading is still the only affordable & fun luxury left.... — J.d. Rosy

Inspiration is the power of the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This applies particularly to the young, who should take to it as soon as they can handle knife and fork; this is a fine way for them to begin taking pride in themselves and their abilities. — Julia Child

There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. "What's your name?"
"Um ... " I don't know why I hesitate. But "Beatrice" just doesn't sound right anymore.
"Think about it," he says, a faint smile curling his lips. " You don't get to pick again."
A new place, a new name. I can be remade here.
"Tris," I say firmly. — Veronica Roth

Prejudice means literally pre-judgment, the rejection of a contention out of hand, before examining the evidence. Prejudice is the result of powerful emotions, not of sound reasoning. — Carl Sagan

Real music will make you more and more refined. It will become more and more silent. In fact, real music will help you to listen to silence, where all notes disappear, where only gaps remain. One note comes, disappears, and another has not come, and there is a gap. In that gap meditation flows in you. — Rajneesh

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us? — Joan Osborne

I am ugly,
submerged in my own past
and my own madness — Anne Sexton