Piper Laurie Carrie Quotes & Sayings

It was exactly the sort of thing I needed to be reading that afternoon: a story where, no matter how bad things got, you knew everything was going to turn out fine in the end. — Heather James

I never forget the first time I was on 'Top of the Pops', my bass player said: 'You've made it!' I did used to think, when I was younger, that I'd be on there one day. — Bonnie Tyler

Past ages come to us in new ways. For instance, they bore or disturb us. The dead say things we would or could not say in ways that appall , bless, and startle us. Reading them is part of diversity. The easiest voices to ignore are those of the dead; nevertheless, they often on the ones we need most. — John Mark Reynolds

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Does it matter that the sausages are local? I'm just going to eat them, not make friends and go to the cinema with them. — Louise Rennison

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness. — Scott Adams

Visited the library often to read or reread books he had ignored or misunderstood while at university. The Name of the Rose, for one, and Remembering Slavery, a collection that so moved him he composed some mediocre, sentimental music to commemorate the narratives. He read Twain, enjoying the cruelty of his humor. He read Walter Benjamin, impressed by the beauty of the translation, he read Frederick Douglass's autobiography again, relishing for the first time the eloquence that both hid and displayed his hatred. He read Herman Melville, and let Pip break his heart, reminding him of Adam alone, abandoned, swallowed by waves of casual evil. Six — Toni Morrison

If he kept that up, I was going to ugly-cry all over his expensive coat. — Pippa DaCosta

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control. — Nelson Mandela

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre

If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of The Creation. — Ernest Newman

I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest. — D. B. Weiss

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others. — Epictetus