Pieties Def Quotes & Sayings

We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future. — Jim Messina

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll. — Billy Corgan

I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with. — Sarah Kay

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance. — Francis Bacon

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72 — Mark Twain

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on. — Martin Parr

I want them to whisper my stories of enchanted birds, ancestral traditions,and smooth brown turtles as if they were incantations. — Autumn Morning Star

The thing is, the kids always rebel against what the parents try to push on them so I'm going to pretend like I don't want [my son] to hear the rock. I'm going to listen to it only in my private chambers. He'll hear echoes of it and say: "What was that you were listening to papa?" And I'll say: "Nothing son, you're not ready." — Jack Black

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore. — Danny Boyle