Okudzhava Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children. — Gary Oldman

The education of the Negroes, then, the most important thing in the uplift of the Negroes, is almost entirely in the hands of those who have enslaved them and now segregate them. — Carter G. Woodson

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward. — Ryan Lochte

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become. — Robert Fanney

I'm not sure I'm doing it very well. — Jojo Moyes

I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it's not its fault. That's obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage.
If the old imbeciles hadn't discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn't have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors! — Arthur Rimbaud

I would not like to keep you: a tiger must remain wild or it ceases to remain a Tiger. When we play, however, I would like to take you! I would like you to take me! I would like to ride you. We can take turns". — Waylon H. Lewis

Did you know that writing stories down kills them?
Of course it does, words aren't meant to be stiff, unchanging things. — N.K. Jemisin

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced. — Wally Schirra

Storytelling can heal broken hearts and damaged minds. — Dean Koontz

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ. — Saint Augustine