Murail Composer Quotes & Sayings

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state. — Jill Lepore

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go. — Tracy Chapman

People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it. — Priyanka Chopra

in their supposed innocence of and opposition to empire, have become the mythic progenitors of the United States - almost as improbably as Solomon was of Ethiopia or Aeneas of Rome or his suppositious brother, Brut, of Britain. But almost everything most Americans think about the Plymouth colonists of 1620 is false. The truth is more credible. The first colonists in Massachusetts, exchanging accusations of "bestial, yea, diabolical affectations," were as divided and conflicted as people usually are when fate flings them together. Their leaders did not seek — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?"
There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to. — Richelle Mead

When you get kicked in the teeth, chew on it: don't bite back. — K.C. Rhoads

The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor. — Edward St. Aubyn

The F word turns me on, she whispered.
The F word?
Food
He threw back his head and laughed. It rumbled up out of his chest and felt so good it startled him. For the first time in years,his laughter was spontaneous. It wasn't tinged with bitterness and cynicism. — Sandra Brown

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something. — Will Cuppy

Outside an ambulance begins to scream as if overwhelmed by the suffering it must forever carry in its belly. — Alan Moore

For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught. — Frank Sinatra