Noise Not Music Logo Quotes & Sayings

My dream is that my kids grow up into nice people; that's my dream. — Tobias Lindholm

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! — Philip Larkin

The woman in the tub had been dead for a long time. She was bloated and purple, her gas-filled belly rising out of the cold, ice-rimmed water like some fleshy island. Her eyes were fixed on Danny's, glassy and huge, like marbles. She was grinning, her purple lips pulled back in a grimace. Her breasts lolled. Her pubic hair floated. Her hands were frozen on the knurled porcelain sides of the tub like crab claws. — Stephen King

Impossibly, the static coalesces into music. Volkheimer's eyes open as wide as they can. Straining the blackness for every stray photon. A single piano runs up scales. Then back down. He listens to the notes and the silences between them, and then finds himself leading horses through a forest at dawn, trudging through snow behind his great-grandfather, who walks with a saw draped over his huge shoulders, the snow squeaking beneath boots and hooves, all the trees above them whispering and creaking. They reach the edge of a frozen pond, where a pine grows as tall as a cathedral. His great-grandfather goes to his knees like a penitent, fits the saw into a groove in the bark, and begins to cut. — Anthony Doerr

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land. — Peter Sarsgaard

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone. — Jose Antonio Vargas

How do you deliver the best possible and affordable health care to maximize health? — Todd Park

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them. They are so far away from us that only the poet can understand them. — Oscar Wilde

There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation. — Stephen Kinzer

The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by the government, and alterable by the government, seems to have been little understood and less observed in any other country. Wherever the supreme power of legislation has resided, has been supposed to reside also, a full power to change the form of government. — James Madison

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor. — Kevin Rudd

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. — Franklin Pierce Adams