Melden Quotes & Sayings

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. — Susan Faludi

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along. — Pat Benatar

If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it. — Trick Daddy

[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain? — Frank Harris

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all. — Ricky Martin

Still more than by the communion of souls, they were united by the abyss that separated them from the rest of the world. — Boris Pasternak

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck. — Khaled Hosseini

Malfoy was screaming and holding Harry so tightly it hurt. Then, — J.K. Rowling

The strongest presence is so often an absence. — Steve Rasnic Tem

The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love. — Franz Werfel

This is what you have to understand. You grew up, you went to this school and that one, you made these friends and those. It was nothing. The future is a much bigger deal than the past, Adrian, a much bigger deal. Not just because it has babies in it, but because there are better people in it, who are better behaved and more fun to be with, the scenery is better, the weather is better, the rewards and thrills are better. But I really am not sure that you will ever... — Stephen Fry

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style. — Desmond Dekker