Messiaen Quartet Quotes & Sayings

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours. — Robert Byrne

Some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a facet inside him that society could not tame, something stimulating yet dangerous, like standing at the edge of a cliff and feeling the mysterious, subtle pull to jump. — Brenda Novak

I knew too where Voldemort was weak. And so I made my decision. You would be protected by an ancient magic of which he knows, which he despises, and which he has always, therefore, underestimated - to his cost. I am speaking, of course, of the fact that your mother died to save you. She gave you a lingering protection he never expected, a protection that flows in your veins to this day. I put my trust, therefore, in your mother's blood. — J.K. Rowling

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled. — Paula Poundstone

That's what I feel too - people aren't taking responsibility for each other. You said the socialists had ceased to be a moral force, for the time, at least, because they wouldn't take moral responsibility. Except for a few people. You said that, didn't you - well then. But you write and write in notebooks, saying what you think about life, but you lock them up, and that's not being responsible." "A very great — Doris Lessing

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. — George Santayana

I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters. — Brendan Sexton III

While all living things affect the evolution of other living things simply by virtue of trying to stay alive, humans interact with the biological evolution of other species in a much more complex and powerful fashion because of one ability: language. Nothing occurs on the human scale without language. No language means no agriculture, no animal farming, no science. — Christine Kenneally

Eating well is a lifelong priority. — Sara Ramirez

Ants, like human beings, can create civilizations without the use of reason. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in the thick of a wood; but where people are planted sparely it blossoms and matures, like apples on a standard or an espalier. It flourishes where the inn and lodging-house cannot exist. — Hugh Miller

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character. — Hugo Hamilton

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you. — Shams Tabrizi

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school. — Ann Hood