Pistonheads Quotes & Sayings

I don't remember most of the '60s and '70s. — Jerry Della Femina

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write. — Jason Reitman

God is the name we give to the science we don't understand. Science is the name we give to the God we don't understand. — Steve Maraboli

Sundown- When the sun must make peace with the moon and for a few brief moments, the two touch in mutual friendship and respect. Perfect balance between the light and dark. A time for reflection and for preparation. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Don't deceive me. Never leave me. — Patrick Ness

Hugs are nourishment for the heart. — Lynda Cheldelin Fell

I looked up then, out the far window, and there, just within sight, the sun was going down across the river. It was dull red, no longer shining over the land, its ray brought home to roost, contained within its sphere. The sky was streaked with lavendar, a pulsing pale blue, purple and smudged pink and orange melding into one another all the way to the horizon. — Jane Hamilton

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. — Mary Oliver

I'm just not very interested in decoration. — Phoebe Philo

Everyone felt as if it had been trying not to cry all its life, — E. Nesbit

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop. — Chely Wright

The truth brings no man a fortune. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man ... — Margaret Halsey

I say, White-Jacket, d'ye mind me? there never was a very great man yet who spent all his life inland. A snuff of the sea, my boy, is inspiration; and having been once out of sight of land, has been the making of many a true poet and the blasting of many pretenders; for, d'ye see, there's no gammon about the ocean; it knocks the false keel right off a pretender's bows; it tells him just what he is, and makes him feel it, too. A sailor's life, I say, is the thing to bring us mortals out. What does the blessed Bible say? Don't it say that we main-top-men alone see the marvellous sights and wonders? Don't deny the blessed Bible, now! don't do it! How it rocks up here, my boy!" holding on to a shroud; "but it only proves what I've been saying - the sea is the place to cradle genius! Heave and fall, old sea! — Herman Melville

To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind.
I would deceive her, And so leave her, But ah! she is so constant and so kind — Thomas Hardy