Nervose Radio Quotes & Sayings

As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry — Joyce Carol Oates

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group. — Lesley Garrett

You are beautiful as always, Violet, he murmured. His parents smiled at us from where they sat sipping wine. There. Every single one of us was smiling.
It was all very pleasant, even if my cheeks were starting to hurt. — Alyxandra Harvey

Yeah, I've made some mistakes. Every guy makes mistakes. — Jeff Gordon

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. — Salman Rushdie

Feminists in Greenwich Village had begun bobbing their hair in 1912. In 1915, it was still radical. "The idea, it seems, came from Russia," the New York Times reported. "The intellectual women of that country were revolutionaries. For convenience in disguising themselves when the police trailed them, they cropped their hair."2 Holloway was something of a revolutionary, too. — Jill Lepore

Charles' conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody's ideas trudged past, in their workaday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter, no dreams. — Gustave Flaubert

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Few of us are not in some way infirm, or even diseased; and our very infirmities help us unexpectedly. In the psychopathic temperament we have the emotionality which is the sine qua non of moral perception; we have the intensity and tendency to emphasis which are the essence of practical moral vigor; and we have the love of metaphysics and mysticism which carry one's interests beyond the surface of the sensible world. What, then, is more natural than that this temperament should introduce one to regions of religious truth, to corners of the universe, which your robust Philistine type of nervous system, forever offering its biceps to be felt, thumping its breast, and thanking Heaven that it hasn't a single morbid fiber in its composition, would be sure to hide forever from its self-satisfied possessors? — William James

Live happy, practice kindness, generate love, teach peace, stay grateful and in all that you are and do ... be great. — Timothy Pina

We can remake the world daily. — Paul Wellstone

There's a part of me that's convinced this everlasting war will end when I coax a smile out of that girl. — Rick Yancey

Saul Bellow: Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything. — Christopher Hitchens

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time. — Jerry Seinfeld