Roseannadanna Quotes & Sayings

Every time I got disappointed I'd remember the Roseannadanna philosophy that says that you shouldn't cry over split milk 'cause if you spill some milk and instead of cleaning it up you just walk over it and start crying, they're gonna put you on lithium. — Gilda Radner

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. — Charles Lamb

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large. — Frank Spotnitz

Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws. — Theodore Roosevelt

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. — Sadegh Hedayat

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there. — William Carlos Williams

Music has always been in me. — Michelle Branch

If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press ... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds — Bill Moyers

[Roseanne Roseannadanna line:] It's always something. — Gilda Radner

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting. — Sri Chinmoy

Julian presented the food. A fillet of sea bass with perfect griddle marks and a scattering of fennel picked from a nearby hedgerow. There were caramelized carrots, baby la ratte potatoes and a garnish of roasted tomatoes that had made a brief appearance in a painting that afternoon. — Red Ochre Press

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it. — Chaim Potok

We should not hoard knowledge; we should be free from our knowledge. — Shunryu Suzuki

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories. — Roald Dahl