Morando Artist Quotes & Sayings

When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?' — Robert Breault

Happiness is found when no one is looking — Lauren Oliver

The price of defeat is bearing the burden. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep.'
'I was not,' I say, then look from his neck to my knife.
'When I tried to wake you, you stabbed me.' He sounds sore put out. and I cannot blame him. — R.L. LaFevers

Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'. — John Green

Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate. — Nicholas Roe

There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later. — Calvin Trillin

In the Ways, ji connotes skill and ri connotes inspiration. When one sees into the underlying principles, one's performance becomes inspired. — Kenneth Kushner

LEARNING IS DISCOVERING THAT SOMETHING IS POSSIBLE — Dawna Markova

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake! — Lauryn Hill

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He is telling us the story of the free spirit that is doing everything it can to escape from within him. That same kind of spirit is inside me, inside you. There
you can hear it, I'm sure: the hot breath, the shivering heart. (Thailand) — Haruki Murakami

If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug. — Barry Diller