Pinballing Down The Stairs Quotes & Sayings

I don't much like opera, either. Especially Wagner. There's something about Wagner that's just too piss-German, too fucking Bavarian for a Prussian like me. I like my music to be every bit as vulgar as I am myself. I like a bit of innuendo and stocking-top when a woman's singing a song. — Philip Kerr

Albert tin. Why're — Anne Tyler

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch. — Jenna Morasca

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God . — Vladimir Putin

People just want to know that they matter. — Oprah Winfrey

All about that action boss — Marshawn Lynch

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. — Barry Lopez

Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas ... But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate ... the guid to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern. — Lynn Steen

Dampax. The best tampon on the market. Period. — Blair Evans

My biggest entertainment in Moscow was to go to the subway and watch people. When American students visited, I watched them; I learned English from them. — Roustam Tariko

Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way? — Sandra Cisneros

Don't worry, Prima Donna. If you start to look faint, I'll drag your body to safety."
"My name is Hailey."
"Okay, Hailey. I'll drag your prima-donna butt to safety, right after I finish my lunch break — Eileen Cook

So we read, in Heb. xiii. 17, of ministers being rulers in the house of God, "that watch for souls, as those that must give account." And we see by the forementioned Luke xiv., that ministers must give an account to their master, not only of their own behavior in the discharge of their office, but also of their people's reception of them, and of the treatment they have met with among them. And — Jonathan Edwards

Helena (Bonham Carter) is one of the coolest kindest women I've ever met. We had so much fun. She has the best sense of humor. I loved her fairy godmother. It came at a point during night shoots where I was exhausted. It was trippy, weird and cold ... and then Helena showed up. It was like this bright light on the horizon; it was wonderful. — Lily James