Moennig Adler Quotes & Sayings

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently. — Stephen Stills

It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements. — Michael Jackson

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion. — Alex Kapranos

There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. [ ... ] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself. — Paul Auster

But you'll get it back-you'll get it all back, with your face... — Edith Wharton

Religion is a veil that we often use to cover our ugliness. — Debasish Mridha

If you were looking aside and mentally adding up the hours until the execution of a young killer, all that registered was something dark flashing by. But if you happened to be gazing directly at the window in question and you happened as well to be feeling unprecedentedly calm, four-tenths of a second was more than enough time to identify the falling object as your husband of forty-seven years. — Jonathan Franzen

In a puddle, ask for a pool; in a pool, ask for a lake; in a lake, ask for an ocean. This is the way for a frog to reach the stars! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way. — Shana Alexander

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. — Norman Maclean

I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy. — Kim Basinger

On stage, it is a tremendous thing to be able to make people laugh. But one of the things that I have always loved is when I am in shows where you can turn the audience upside down and make them cry or move them. That is when things are the most rewarding. — Roger Bart