Plaintive Reed Quotes & Sayings

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. — Igor Stravinsky

Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands. — Zadie Smith

I think the question is, can you live without her? Watch her fall in love with someone else? ... If the fear of some random thing happening in the future is bigger than the reality of her being with another guy, walk away now when it'll merely sort of kill you to do it. But you can't have this doubt between you. Man up. Love her the way she deserves it, or let another man do it. — Lauren Dane

If there is ever a word of criticism of America, it is of the most muted kind. — J.M. Coetzee

Make your days count. Don't invest all your efforts in the future. You miss too much of the now. — Nora Roberts

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success. — Jacob Epstein

When man has nothing but his will to assert
even his good-will
it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains. — D.H. Lawrence

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back. — Van Morrison

Kellogg's Pop-Tarts frequently uses cartoons as part of its visual content mix to tell a fun and irreverent story around people's cravings for Pop-Tarts. — Ekaterina Walter

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing. — Bill Dixon

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit. — Pope Francis

I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain. — Anne Michaels

eBooks make lousy door stoppers — Greg Davidson

There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well. — Rory McIlroy

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. — Vance Havner