Monastick Quotes & Sayings

never try to understand a girl: either you go crazy or fall in love with her. — Smita Kaushik

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement. — Edward Blishen

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There's no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending. — Jeanette Winterson

About Jimi Hendrix - although his playing is at an uber-level, his voice is quite lo-fi and normal, like a regular person singing in the shower, and this makes his music much better than if he was just a technical player and singer. — Jeffrey Lewis

What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask. — Amy Tan

I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot ... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now. — George Clooney

I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves. — Samuel Johnson

But it was just her mind playing cruel tricks, and she tried to push away the irrational thought that Richard was still in there, waiting for someone to save his life. — Paul Pilkington

In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May. — Jimmy Hill

I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down. — Bella James

Struggle is another place you might be getting your self-worth from. Struggle is often celebrated and worn like a badge of honor. The struggle to overcome something. The struggle that makes you fight and teaches you how tough you are. Those are struggles to be celebrated, but continuing to create struggle day in and day out, when you don't have to, in order to justify your existence is a waste of a life. — Cassie Parks

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song. — Jake Owen

When I look at myself in the mirror, all I see is a starving, stunted bird who never grew wings and lost all reason sing. — Julie Anne Peters