Pettinesses Quotes & Sayings

Change is the one sure thing in life — Kate Lord Brown

I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years. — Jeremy Camp

I failed over and over and over and that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us. — Nadia Boulanger

I need the enchantment of creative work to help me forget life's mean pettinesses. — Soren Kierkegaard

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music. — Peter Gabriel

A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself. — Leo Burnett

Don't deny me what's mine, Brighton. — A. Zavarelli

Like literature, music can overwhelm you with sudden emotion, can move you to absolute sorrow or ecstasy; like literature, painting has the power to astonish, and to make you see the world through fresh eyes. But only literature can put you in touch with another human spirit, as a whole, with all its weaknesses and grandeurs, its limitations, its pettinesses, its obsessions, its beliefs; with whatever it finds moving, interesting, exciting, or repugnant. — Michel Houellebecq

It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly. — Hojo Shigetoki

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny. — Steven Wright

Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky. — Jay-Z

When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes. — Desiderius Erasmus

you only knew what bliss I found in being nothing you would not advise me how to live. When — Jalaluddin Rumi

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force. — Joseph Smith Jr.

But only literature can put you in touch with another human spirit, as a whole, with all its weaknesses and grandeurs, its limitations, its pettinesses, its obsessions, its beliefs; with whatever it finds moving, interesting, exciting, or repugnant. Only literature can grant you access to a spirit from beyond the grave - a more direct, more complete, deeper access than you'd have in conversation with a friend. Even — Michel Houellebecq

Fortune, honour, beauty, youth,
Are but blossoms dying;
Wanton pleasures, doting love,
Are but shadows flying. — Thomas Campion