Purviance House Quotes & Sayings

When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets. — Scott Walker

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake. — Mark Twain

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox. — Jack Osbourne

Lakshmi is a celestial being who lives in a higher plane of existence. Her mantra is "Sring." When you chant it, it brings beauty and light into your consciousness. — Frederick Lenz

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations. — Narendra Modi

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction ... And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man ... — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling ... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. — August Wilson

rewarded with another drag on her — Diane M. Dickson

If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do not pay it the least attention, never mind where it is; just keep quiet and hope it will go away - for that's your best chance; you have none in a stand-up fight with a good thorough-going African insect. — Mary Kingsley