Notessession Quotes & Sayings

I began to understand that there were certain talkers
certain girls
whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls, had to say, but because of the delight they took in saying it. A delight in themselves, a shine on their faces, a conviction that whatever they were telling about was remarkable and that they themselves could not help but give pleasure. There might be other people
people like me
who didn't concede this, but that was their loss. And people like me would never be the audience these girls were after, anyway. — Alice Munro

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must never, in any age or circumstance, let fear and the father of fear (Satan himself) divert us from our faith and faithful living. — Jeffrey R. Holland

It's odd how a piece of ground can hold so little of its meaning; though that's lucky, since for it to do so would make places sacred but impenetrable, whereas they're otherwise neither. — Richard Ford

My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate. — Yoenis Cespedes

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it. — Richard Paul Evans

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff. — Kate Adie

Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new. — Fabiola Gianotti

You believe that you believe, but you don't believe. — Jean-Paul Sartre

When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage. — Mark Bradford

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another — John Ray

I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic. — Gerry Lindgren

So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future. — Nobuo Uematsu

I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends. — Zoe Kravitz

Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing. — Paul Gibbons