Miranda Sings Book Quotes & Sayings

If you are speaking of music ... it is of all subjects my delight. There are few people in England I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. And so would Anne, if her health would have allowed her to apply. I am confident that she would have performed delightfully. - Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity. — Ben Huh

It is neutral if you go under spell in your first love; but if it happens for a second time you have mistaken love with something else. — M.F. Moonzajer

I should have had the pickle. — Preston Sturges

Whenever you complete a task of any size or importance, you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task, the happier, more confident, and more powerful you feel about yourself and your world. — Brian Tracy

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends. — Paulo Coelho

Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Something inside Dolly curled up and died. Things could not have been worse. Except that suddenly they were. — Kate Morton

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider ... — Simone De Beauvoir

There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. — Alice Hoffman

I don't want to lose anyone else I care about... for reasons I don't understand! I swore to myself I would do whatever necessary to prevent that from ever happening again! — Noriko Ogiwara

I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot. — Michael Trucco