Mellowed As Whiskey Quotes & Sayings

The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor. — Saint Basil

If we gotta fight and die for America, why should we be treated like slaves in America? — Hosea Williams

In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly. — Mark Bradford

How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent. — Lord Dunsany

I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night. — Charles Lloyd

The most obstinate beliefs that mortals entertain about themselves are such as they have no evidence for beyond a constant, spontaneous pulsing of their self-satisfaction - as it were a hidden seed of madness, a confidence that they can move the world without precise notion of standing-place or lever. — George Eliot

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out. — Edmund White

Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have power to seduce the foolish and untaught, till naught but fiction feeds the many, and the fruit of falsehood carries in its current the giddy to the grave; but one touch with the finger of his love, yes, one ray of glory from the upper world, or one word from the mouth of the Savior, from the bosom of eternity, strikes it all into insignificance, and blots it forever from the mind. (Messenger and Advocate Oct 1934 pp 14-16) — Oliver Cowdery

And so the game went on in this manner, a throng of children playing keep-away from a bowling ball tossed back and forth between two plump ogres. The air filled with shrieks and cheers and shouts of laughter as daring players thrilled at the sport. That is, all but the few poor souls knocked flat and captured. No laughter rose from behind bars because those in the birdcage knew what was in store. They would soon be lunch for a couple of hungry ogres.
Now you might be thinking - didn't Gavin call it fun when he was swallowed by a wolf earlier? And didn't he tell that raven-haired girl it doesn't hurt to be swallowed whole by a bear? All true, all true. But here's a secret you might not know.
Ogres chew their food.
Luckily, it's only the first bite that stings. — Richelle E. Goodrich

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred. — Auguste Rodin

Do you like being rich?"
"Yes. Show me someone who doesn't," he says darkly. — E.L. James

When I was 13, when I was 14, when I was in England, yeah all I wanted to do was go and see The Who, go and see The Stones. — Hans Zimmer

And your God-given purpose in life is to maximize your potential. You must use the gifts God gave you in order to be fulfilled in life. If you are not fulfilled, it is because you have not yet learned to operate in your gifts. — Mark Jones