Muchmusic Countdown Quotes & Sayings

Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal. — Jon Landau

It was too full of love. Nothing could shift it. Nothing could turn it from itself. When all the world was palimpsest, it was a perfect palindrome. Inviolate. — Patrick Rothfuss

We share a reckless, toxic love that feeds the brokenness in me, in us. Our love is an addiction. A love that I won't ever consider living without. — Angie McKeon

The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice. — George Santayana

We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites. — Frederick Lenz

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for. — Patrick Rothfuss

A deity who remains silent and invisible should not get angry or surprised at doubt of his reality. — Graham Kendall

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive. — Heraclitus

The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning. — Joseph Campbell

Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic. — Richie Norton

The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed unanimously in the House, won 97 votes in the Senate, and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Twenty states have passed their own versions of this law, and 11 additional ones have religious-liberty protections that state courts have interpreted to provide a similar level of protection. — Edwin Meese

For the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people. — Eveline Herfkens

My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival. — Budd Hopkins

I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up. — Flannery O'Connor