Nonmusic Quotes & Sayings

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus. — Susan Jacoby

There it is: the spoken admission that he was hers to lose. As soon as the words leave my mouth, I feel weirdly deflated, as though they've been swollen, balloonlike, in my chest this whole time — Lauren Oliver

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them ... You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted ... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules. — Joseph Campbell

No newspapers, magazines, audiobooks, or nonmusic radio. Music is permitted at all times. No news websites whatsoever (cnn, drudgereport, msn,10 etc.). No television at all, except for one hour of pleasure viewing each evening. No reading books, except for this book and one hour of fiction11 pleasure reading prior to bed. No web surfing at the desk unless it is necessary to complete a work task for that day. Necessary means necessary, not nice to have. — Timothy Ferriss

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel. — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Here she tossed her foot impatiently, and showed an inch or two of calf. A sailor on the mast, who happened to look down at the moment, started so violently that he missed his footing and only saved himself by the skin of his teeth. 'If the sight of my ankles means death to an honest fellow who, no doubt, has a wife and family to support, I must, in all humanity, keep them covered,' Orlando thought. Yet her legs were among her chieftest beauties. And she fell to thinking what an odd pass we have come to when all a woman's beauty has to be kept covered lest a sailor fall from a mast-head. 'A pox on them!' she said, realizing for the first time what, in other circumstances, she would have been taught as a child, that is to say, the sacred responsibilities of womanhood ... — Virginia Woolf

I threw All the King's Men across the living room. — M. Pierce

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different. — Karl Lagerfeld

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film. — Mike Figgis

History may not repeat itself," in Mark Twain's wise formulation, "but it rhymes. — Adam Smith

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. — Robert MacNeil

The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God. — Gerard Van Der Leeuw