Mike Ranney Quotes & Sayings

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them. — Sting

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty. — Marianne Faithfull

The dominant classes in the South might divert the funds towards the creation of an America instead, with vastly well-off sector living in protected zones, separated from rest of the population by well crafted cordons sanitaires. — Vijay Prashad

You teach people how to treat you. — Oprah Winfrey

It's ridiculous that people aren't allowed to love who they love, have families, and have the same life as straight people. It's infuriating. — Janina Gavankar

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera. — Ken Hensley

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes. — Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrative, however, has two kinds of time: first, its own real time, which like musical time defines its movement and presentation; and second, the time of its contents, which has a perspective quality that can vary widely, from a story in which the narrative's imaginary time is almost, or indeed totally coincident with its musical time, to one in which it stretches over light-years. — Thomas Mann

I'm glad your parents will be at the wedding. It's important for you to see them, — Robin Mahle

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up. — Benjamin F. Wade

So, what's your secret?" Renata asked.

I squinted my eyes in question, tightened my shoulders.

"To staying thin?" she asked. "When you eat like that?"

It's simple, I thought. Be broke, friendless, and homeless. Spend weeks eating other people's leftovers, or nothing at all. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year. — Gail Collins

I am high in the sky, and still I do not see the face of god. — Gherman Titov

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness. — John Webster

I want to seem put together in front of a person who earns a living trying to help me get all the pieces back together. — Hannah Brencher