Monneret De Villard Quotes & Sayings

The great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases ... there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood. — Henry James

Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music. — Tom Waits

The Aramaic word for "forgive" means literally to "untie." Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings; free yourself from that person's ugliness. — Sharon E. Rainey

I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure. — Chris Van Allsburg

At what exact moment did the real turn into the unreal, reality into reverie? Where was the border? Where is the border? — Milan Kundera

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass. — Don Ellis

In a world where PG 13 means kinda-sorta-depends on your level of morals, I don't wish to loosen our kids' morals just because some adults choose to say, "They are going to see it anyway." If we don't show them that integrity is something you should always have in the back of your mind, then we've given up on them. — Cyndi Goodgame

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation. — Anne Rice

Our witness is only as strong as our freedom is real. We can have the most noble convictions in the world, but if we are snarky and impatient when we don't get our way, those things will interfere with our influence. If we gossip more than we pray, those misspoken words will demolish our influence. If our addictions get in the way of living out our convictions, we'll have mostly a negative influence. — Susie Larson