Privett Quotes & Sayings

Raise the roof, that I might see the stars
To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are
Please, I need proof — Barry Privett

What destruction have I been blessed by? — A.R. Ammons

Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all. — Courtney M. Privett

Innocence has no place alongside immortality. — Courtney M. Privett

Only the dead remember the truth. — Courtney M. Privett

I focus on the light I can find, and if I can't find it, I create it. — Courtney M. Privett

What do you live for when everyone and everything you love is gone? Do you keep going, keep stumbling through the dark, or do you find something new to cherish? Maybe neither. Maybe you walk silently and ignore the blows time takes on your heart. — Courtney M. Privett

You're making me get used to sleeping at night," she said. "Plus, I don't sleep in my clothing anymore." "If you did, it would make things a little awkward." "Yes," she said, "but what if we get attacked during the night? I'd have to fight them naked." "I wouldn't mind watching that." She — Brandon Sanderson

The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you. — Courtney M. Privett

We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way. — Courtney M. Privett

In search of some rest, in search of a break From a life of tests where something's always at stake Where something's always so far What about my broken car? What about my life so far? What about my dream? — Barry Privett

The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life. — Courtney M. Privett

A Libyan rebel has admitted to killing Moammar Gadhafi. He said he shot Gadhafi twice in the temple, to which Michele Bachmann said, I didn't even know the guy was Jewish. — Jay Leno

There are no stars, no moon, only knots, only the promise of death. Drums cry out in the abyss and then fade with everything else. Even the shadows fade and all that is left is death. We are all dead, we just haven't figured it out yet. — Courtney M. Privett

Considering you are pretty much like this the whole time whether you're onstage, whether you're in the van, whether you're eating, whether you're in the hotel room. So everyone has their moments and you kind of learn to respect people's space when they're not in a good mood. — Barry Privett

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master? — Courtney M. Privett

I write to prove that we lived. I write both to remember and to let go. I write because I can't stop, not until this horrible story of ours is over and we're safe at home. — Courtney M. Privett

Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important. — Nicholas Sparks

It's been a little tough just because we've been playing so much. Your lives are getting a little more complicated than they were straight out of college when we first started. People are starting to get married, have families and all, it becomes more of a challenge. It's not an easy lifestyle. — Barry Privett

We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe. — Courtney M. Privett

Forests should not be walked on, they should be walked under and through. — Courtney M. Privett

Hate feeds on your heart and pollutes your mind. It makes you lose sight of reality and forces you to focus on animosity instead of love. Hate makes you less of a person, because the borders of hate are so expansive they leave no room for anything else, and then the rest of your world becomes tiny and insignificant in comparison. — Courtney M. Privett

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio. — Ursula Andress

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss
when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament. — Barry Privett

Misunderstood twins run away from weddings. Malevolent twins shoot the groom. — Courtney M. Privett

History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception. — Courtney M. Privett

What is love if not the gravity of souls? — Courtney M. Privett

Lies are convenient when the truth is unfathomable. — Courtney M. Privett

There is something intimate about playing a duet. It's touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh. — Courtney M. Privett

If you are focused on God, then all "mountains" are under your feet. — Sunday Adelaja

Loved me. How over the top and dramatic can one person get? I mean, hell. Lust at seventeen, sure. Sex buddies at eighteen, shit yeah. But love? Love doesn't enter anyone's life until you turn forty-two, add fifty pounds to your body, and start complaining about the younger generations. Once someone can put up with your forty-two-year-old annoying ass and nasty farts, you know that's real love. — Brittainy C. Cherry

Paloma you cry out, you beg for connection
The dreams you seek are straight ahead in every direction — Barry Privett