Overbeek Music Quotes & Sayings

Listen," she said in a fierce voice, barely controlled below a shout, "you sanctimonious, know-nothing, backward, shriveled son-of-a-bitch. It's attitudes like yours that screw up the world! You talk about your religion and culture, but you're just a self-serving, patriarchal, fanatic. You wouldn't know Satan if she bit you on the ass! — J. Craig Wheeler

To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives. — Janine Di Giovanni

All for all, always. — Martha N. Beck

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon's scalpel. — Gina Barreca

I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19. — Michael Owen

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them. — Serge Schmemann

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience. — Kobayashi Issa

Live! Don't just Exist!!! Don't drag through Life ... Live each day as a Celebration.-RVM — R.v.m.

I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain states of mind as 'diseased.' A lack of desire to spend money becomes a symptom of disease that requires expensive medication. Which medication then destroys the libido, in other words destroys the appetite for the one pleasure in life that's free, which means the person has to spend more money on compensatory pleasures. The very definition of mental health is the ability to participate in the consumer economy. When you buy into therapy, you're buying into buying. And I'm saying that I personally am losing the battle with a commercialized, medicalized, totalitarian, modernity right this instant. — Jonathan Franzen

I took the pieces you threw away, put them together by night and day. Washed by the rain. Dried by the sun. A million pieces all in one. — Howard Finster

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. — Olympia Brown

History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain. — Peter Esterhazy