Musing About The Past Quotes & Sayings

It has been a top priority of Congress to reduce the drug costs of all seniors. — Paul Gillmor

If we've deluded ourselves into thinking that our angry mass emails or conversation-stopping talking points serve as a ministry or carry out the purposes of God, we need to slow down and take a breath. — David Dark

You know I'll always be here for you, Wills. Even when we're seventy years old and can barely walk, I'll use my cane to keep the bad guys away." I — Jessica Sorensen

In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?" — Khalil Gibran

Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing. — Pierce Brosnan

The adam and I had pondered the death many times since the day he brought me here. But despite our musing about an end of life and our search for evidence of death among fallen and decomposing fruit and the compost of leaves and the refuse of our industry, which we gathered to enrich the soil, I understood the death less well than the explosion that had filled the universe at its incarnation. In fact, every evidence of degrading life seemed only to point back to the sustenance of the living so that I grasped the idea of the death less and less the more I meditated upon it. — Tosca Lee

usually perfectly curled and braided, has been slicked back into a simple bun. When I see gray at her temples, — Victoria Aveyard

Like one of those damned clapper lights. Love on. Love off.
Robert musing about his parents love for him — M.L. Rhodes

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity. — Alice Miller

When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. " People get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them, " he said. At age forty-five, Jobs was now about to get out of his groove. — Walter Isaacson

Rome is everybody's memory ... — Eleanor Clark

This is not a book about whether one can be good without God, because that question does not need to be answered
it needs to be rejected outright. To suggest that one can't be good without belief in God is not just an opinion, a mere curious musing
it is a prejudice. — Greg M. Epstein

It's just how love gets described in the movies. Like in Sleepless in Seattle ... " This is the movie they showed us last night. "Tom Hanks's character is musing about why he fell in love with his dead wife, and he says that it was because she could peel an apple in one long strip, or something like that. And I was reading something similar in a book recently, only that was about peeling an orange ... anyway ... I've just never felt like the way someone peels fruit would be a reason to spend the rest of your life with them. — Catherine McKenzie

So, I'm a playwright. In Minneapolis. Which means that I find myself operating in a pretty lefty crowd, most of the time. And most of my energy goes towards arguing with that, and musing about how I really fucking can't stand Democrats. So I was startled to be reminded of a fact that I'd almost entirely forgotten: I really fucking can't stand Republicans. — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

Residual emotions always show up from time to time in our daily lives until we completely offload them. — Santosh Joshi

A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me. — Eric Millegan

The Left will destroy what is good to try to make what is perfect. That is the motto of the Left — Dennis Prager

I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when, in practice, I'm not thinking about that when I'm working over the keyboard, or musing over musical ideas in my head. But when discussing it, we want to have some new thought about this new music. — John Maus

What's all this about sin, eh?'
'That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music.' And then I was really sick and they had to bring a bowl that was in the shape of like a kidney.
'Music,' said Dr. Brodsky, like musing. 'So you're keen on music. I know nothing about it myself. It's a useful emotional heightener, that's all I know. Well, well. What do you think about that, eh, Branom?'
'It can't be helped,' said Dr. Branom. 'Each man kills the thing he loves ... — Anthony Burgess

Carl sat musing until the sun leaped above the prairie, and in the grass about him all the small creatures of day began to tune their tiny instruments. Birds and insects without number began to chirp, to twitter, to snap and whistle, to make all manner of fresh shrill noises. The pasture was flooded with light; every clump of ironweed and snow-on-the-mountain threw a long shadow, and the golden light seemed to be rippling through the curly grass like the tide racing in. — Willa Cather

Dumb as he looked, he never missed an insult.
Dr. Rowan musing about Simple Silas — Ava Gray

This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it. — Daniel Klein

We can be "heroes" just for one day. — David Bowie

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time. — Victor Hugo

There is no rest for the striver. Just beyond the completion of each goal on our life-achievement "bucket list" looms another goal, and then another. Meanwhile, of course, the clock is ticking - quite loudly, in fact. We become breathless. And we have no time left for a calm and reflective appreciation of our twilight years, no deliciously long afternoons sitting with friends or listening to music or musing about the story of our lives. And we will never get another chance for that. — Daniel Klein

I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That's actually how I get work: I enroll. That's like my good luck charm. — Natasha Lyonne

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It's pretty simple. — Tom McClintock

Story ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They're kind of random and haphazard. Often I can't find anything. Somehow, by doing that, even though I don't necessarily refer to them in a specific way, I have some sort of architecture in my head. — Charlie Kaufman