Piobaireachd Quotes & Sayings

When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your heart. For the world has a way to dismantle your cause, to exploit what you lack and expose all your flaws. But when every layer of your being is gone, and it seems there's no point anymore to go on; just remember one thing, at the end of the day, when you have self-respect they can't take that away. — Wes Fesler

Tell me. You're a man who understands history," I said. "If you want to start a revolution, why not issue a manifesto? Why not show the people who you are, what you're doing?"
He leaned back, grateful to explain. "That's perfectly understandable. Socrates wrote nothing down. Neither did Jesus. The problem with text is that it assumes it's own reality. It cannot answer, and it cannot explain. — Nicholas Shakespeare

Everyone has their own version of a memory, — Gillian Flynn

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. — James Baldwin

When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog. — Markus Zusak

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue. — Peter Ustinov

By serving humanity, I automatically serve myself. — Vironika Tugaleva

I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really got into this music. After that, I started to compose bagpipe music in my notations. Then I started building bagpipes by myself, and then I started to perform with the instrument myself in the 1980s. — Yoshi Wada

When you're focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you're believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless. — Byron Katie

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming. — Tori Amos

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. — Victor Hugo

I was flavour of the year for a couple of years, and then, like everyone else, I faded into obscurity. I didn't car;, I loved it. — Paul Hogan

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius. — Seneca The Younger