Peila Award Quotes & Sayings

I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me. — Frankie Cosmos

I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing. — Bill Watterson

One day all the racists and religious extremists in this world will wake up and realize that they are living in a 60's movie. — Thisuri Wanniarachchi

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships. — John Frusciante

Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it. It happened so fast, she didn't have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment. — Rainbow Rowell

One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy. — Bruce Hoffman

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My fat never made me less money. — Dolly Parton

One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long time without biting and then went away. — Jack Kerouac

I realized I still wanted to dream about the person I would become, not actually be her. — Meg Howrey

You are my home; it is in your loving gaze that I find the comfort, acceptance, and the sense of belonging. — Steve Maraboli

i wish cats could float around your head — Megan Boyle

Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out. — Lana Parrilla

He cut right through the layers of civilization, politeness, and social snobbery to some preternatural female sense that said, "Dominant male. Danger. Power. Sex." Why — Ilona Andrews

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. — Ovid